hi Don, I took the hull shape of 18 ft nacra catamaran hulls and have stretched it out to 40 ft and doubled its circumfrence at it's widest...
thank you Iheart , I wont be mixing chemicals, the poly ester already knocks me around enough as it is. I'm not set up for it. Long term exposure...
cristofa, I built a scale model of a catamaran I plan to build, it didnt have enough bouyancy to use as a small sailing cat so I set it up to row....
[IMG] I designed and built this cat in what I consider to be the cheapest,quickest and most importantly the lightest per $ rate. It's pointless...
thanks Yoke ,I will do that ,I'll do a bulkhead and time it to match main layout and see how it behaves.
thanks yokebutt, what about wetting out all the lamenates one layer at a time but all in the same session ( total 6ml thick 90 kg resin over 26m2)...
hi phil, I to are in Brisbane I to am building a cat 12mtr but mine will weigh only 600 kg basicly two pipes, 4 beams, tramps, rigging and sails...
I was qouted by the supplier 1/3 fibre 2/3 poly resin on duo matt which is a complex w/roven with a ch/strand backing .In a trial run where I...
50/50 ? thank you yoke , do you mean 50% gel and 50% vinyl-ester ? p.s What is the correct term for a hull construction method that is a...
I dont want to do it myself. I have built 12mtr GRP hulls and I swore never again Ill probably get a local shop to do it. Ill support the guts on...
I intend to hand layout 12 mtr long sleek elipse shaped cat hull( more like a pontoon or long pipe) at their widest point they are 900ml x 600ml ,...
I want to start selling my bare cat hulls up to 40 ft .They are male moulded single skined grp polester hulls. All the hulls I have made so far...
Your heavy wooden proto type will perform totally differantly from your lightweight f/glass model as did mine. I suggest you go straight to glass....
I to designed a catamaran hull and built it out of 9ml maranti ply with epoxy glass over then I used that as a mold and popped off a single skin...
well mate the cheapest way I have discovered to laminate using polyester resin assuming you are going for single skin is to get a duo matt which...
