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    Alternative to timber engine stringers? Layup schedule to reinforce an old engine bed.

    I find preserving the integrity of the engine alignment and height well worth extra effort of glassing inside the structure. I have gallons of...
    Post by: cadmus, Nov 5, 2021 in forum: Fiberglass and Composite Boat Building
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    Alternative to timber engine stringers? Layup schedule to reinforce an old engine bed.

    interior of the faux stringer Solid fiberglass 3/4" to 7/8" where the bolts are. Bolts are not tapped into or backed by any metal, or even...
    Post by: cadmus, Nov 5, 2021 in forum: Fiberglass and Composite Boat Building
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    Alternative to timber engine stringers? Layup schedule to reinforce an old engine bed.

    OK. just looked. No metal [EDIT: in the faux stringer where the engine mount bolts pass through]. Only fiberglass. The bolts didn't even have...
    Post by: cadmus, Nov 5, 2021 in forum: Fiberglass and Composite Boat Building
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    Alternative to timber engine stringers? Layup schedule to reinforce an old engine bed.

    Thanks MIA Yes. GREAT POINT!!! Little engine. I can lift it myself. Most Nor'Sea27 owners have, and I will, replaced it with a Beta 20 or Beta...
    Post by: cadmus, Nov 5, 2021 in forum: Fiberglass and Composite Boat Building
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    Alternative to timber engine stringers? Layup schedule to reinforce an old engine bed.

    Thanks for that idea. I think if i was going to fix-n-flip the boat I would do just that or just glass in wood timbers with a layer of stainless...
    Post by: cadmus, Nov 5, 2021 in forum: Fiberglass and Composite Boat Building
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    Alternative to timber engine stringers? Layup schedule to reinforce an old engine bed.

    Thanks Bajansailor, I did not look at it that way, but yes. a "deep angle bar" profile of fiberglass with "tripping brackets"is a good...
    Post by: cadmus, Nov 4, 2021 in forum: Fiberglass and Composite Boat Building
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    Alternative to timber engine stringers? Layup schedule to reinforce an old engine bed.

    Having often worked on old boats with lagbolts screwed into wet soggy glassed in lumber stringers as engine beds, I found this fiberglass engine...
    Thread by: cadmus, Nov 4, 2021, 13 replies, in forum: Fiberglass and Composite Boat Building
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    metalboatbuilding.org gone. Looking for contact with members.

    Thanks, I did find the old webmaster and he claimed the backups were too corrupt to be of use. I had spent years beefing up the "designer"...
    Post by: cadmus, Oct 27, 2015 in forum: Metal Boat Building
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    metalboatbuilding.org gone. Looking for contact with members.

    Thanks Nick, but the last time Archive.org captured that site was in 2010. I see only 24 or so threads. There should have been 4 or 5 pages of...
    Post by: cadmus, Feb 21, 2015 in forum: Metal Boat Building
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    metalboatbuilding.org gone. Looking for contact with members.

    I was sad to see metalboatbuilding.org's website is down and the URL forwards to some domain name stealer. I spend many hours each week reading...
    Thread by: cadmus, Feb 15, 2015, 4 replies, in forum: Metal Boat Building
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    Help ID the designer of this steel boat - Bec Scie

    I give up. My snail mail attempts to contact possible family of Dufour in that part of Canada have failed. I have not found any Ibold's designs...
    Post by: cadmus, Feb 14, 2015 in forum: Sailboats
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    CNC cutting lengths needed for various metal sailboat hull designs

    Thanks for the replies. I had family visits for a week then field research for a week and had no internet. pdwiley, i agree with everything you...
    Post by: cadmus, Dec 25, 2014 in forum: Sailboats
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    CNC cutting lengths needed for various metal sailboat hull designs

    TANSL, Thanks for the offer to help, I will send a Personal Message shortly. PDWILEY, you said: "Why bother? " I really do not feel this cost...
    Post by: cadmus, Dec 11, 2014 in forum: Sailboats