[IMG] I will just ask one of my aircraft friends how they glued the skin on this Grumman AA-5. The newer stuff does not require an autoclave.
Plans call for .35 cubic meters of cedar in 12mm by 26 mm strips. On your numbers of 25 pounds per cubic foot, that comes to 309 pounds of wood....
I would use aircraft grade epoxy and of course the strips would have to be trimmed.
Looking at a potential build of a sailboat in cedar strip planking, I see that there is always a potential of water intrusion. Strip planking has...
Rough sketch Here is a drawing. Obviously there has to be a keel, rudder etc and the hull should get finer at the bow end in more of a curved...
Go easy on me here, I know very little. I have read that the hull shape with the most volume and least wetted area is a semi circle. And the bow...
