Thanks, Mud Sailor. I just sent them an inquiry about what that product is made from. I also recently discovered Diolen... characterized as...
See this description of dynel. They're describing something that sounds like dynel to me, but they keep calling it woven polyester. Re:...
PAR, Just noticed you indicated that Vectra was a modacrylic. Do you know who manufactures it or where it can be purchased?
I'm trying to determine what materials, which I can source today, I would use if I built a boat using this approach. Gerr's scantlings for this...
I'm trying to identify currently available materials that could be adapted to Lindsay Lord's building technique, as described in Gerr's book...
I'm contemplating building a plywood stitch-and-glue design using CoreCell M80 instead of plywood. Can anyone who's worked with CoreCell M80 (or...
6.6m LOA, 6.2m LWL, 1.8m beam, 0.15m draft, 660 Kg disp, 18 knots max speed. ISO sheet in VectorLam is indicating < 18oz fiber weight...
I've already been investigating this, indirectly, using the VectorLam spreadsheet created by VectorPly. Still trying to decide if I should invest...
James, No desire to build and all-mat boat, here! It was part of our discussion because Gerr includes an entry for the density of such a layup...
Not that I can see. The glass weight is linearly proportional to the thicknesses he already calculates. All of the engineering is built into...
Thanks for the replies. I'm not attempting to achieve the absolute minimum weight, but I don't want to "pile-on" to an already conservative...
Hello everyone, I've been working up a spreadsheet based on Gerr's "Elements of Boat Strength", for cored FRP. With regard to the density of...