Seemed weird to me, too - saw it in some video of guys rigging a trimaran in Sarasota, they were definitely using tape.
This makes a nice tie-in (pun intended) to another post I made: Dux stays https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/dux-stays.61364/#post-844497 With...
I work in medical devices, we actively track our devices' performance in the field and seek customer feedback on problems. Still, it is widely...
I've read that - but also it seems that the overall life of the dux is considerably less than the stainless, like maybe less than half? Another...
So much depends on what's available at the shop you're at... my first spur of the moment machined part was a quick belt drive pulley - could have...
A couple of months ago I came very close to purchase of a 36' ferro-cement trawler built in Ottowa in the 1970s - it had been cruised through the...
Last time I dealt with a waterjet cutter (about 18 years ago), the metalworking shop I was working with charged it out at $100 per hour, while the...
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Has anybody worked through the whole process of hull/bulkhead/stringer design in plywood on to 3D CNC routing of the plywood pieces? If so, what...
Sounds like you've got a winner there - work that down into an elevator pitch and seek initial funding, better still - crowdfund that, except......
To make VERY short math of sea vs land living cost comparison with the two million dollar bamboo raft - however long that bamboo lasts at sea (not...
Thanks, yep, this one just reduced from $50K asking to $30K asking - best deal out there at the moment (that I'm aware of), wish it weren't 3600...
Absolutely. F-boats have a somewhat colorful history, and there was a period where Ian Farrier disavowed Corsair since they weren't producing his...
In the 1960s, while all the space exploration stuff was going on, there was also quite a bit of study of colonizing the oceans. Lots of trials...
With the mass of the water tanks in the middle, they won't add as much polar moment on the roll axis as they would on the outside - means the boat...
I see this nugget: "Building the hulls or bare shell is actually relatively inexpensive, the major cost comes later when fitting out." sprinkled...
Thanks, some nice ideas in there, but we all need to learn to draw more pictures and show what our variables correspond to in the pictures.
Yeah, I put that together after a bit - that's the first site I found while searching for asia catamarans stealth purchase price... These aussies...
So, that could be the trick, if it's so big that you can't get it all "wet and set" before the cure time, then vacuum bagging might not be for...
I've never heard anyone who actually used peel ply or did vacuum bagging say a bad thing about either, both seem to be worth the extra cost /...
