I'm not 100% sure I follow. You are building a square-ended pram? 3/4" or 1" Plascore bottom with 1/4" (or mm equivalent) Meranti Hydrotek sides?...
This misses the point. The real question here is between foam core and honeycomb core. Plywood and balsa core are obsolete (in the white water...
That may be true with most boats. But Tungsten (I think) is interested in building a drift boat. No other boat takes a bottom pounding like a...
That's my buddy Larry Hedrick. I went through Desolation Canyon with Larry last year, a week off peak high water, in his all-Plascore boat. Nifty...
There are two of us. Jason Cajune used to be Montana Boat Builders, in Pine Creek, just south of Livingston. Jason is still around and still...
The puzzle-joint photo above is mine (http://montana-riverboats.com). I do box joints now, rather than dovetails. Not sure if it's needed....
If you build a composite boat, and if you use honeycomb core (Plascore or Nidacore) for the core material instead of plywood, then you do not have...