I designed a couple of boats for village use in developing countries. The boats are slab sided, flat bottomed, recycled foam/fibreglass flat...
Get a piece and do a test. Epoxy doesn't stick to pvc or PET either, yet most boat foams are the former, and some are the latter. If you abrade...
Not sure who is doing what from that thread, but we are now upcycling waste plastic: all types, including hard, soft and 'unrecyclable' such as...
You ain't kidding! We dropped the 400 sq m Kiteship kite in the tide a couple of times. Big effort to get it back on board. And to sort and...
We've had a bit of a set back, with MSAF not approving the village boats (canoes and water taxis). Not sure how it will end. Plastic recycling...
Correct, but it never got a mast. One of my proas was stored under the boat for a year or so and I got to know Horst when I delivered the rent...
Glad you enjoy my thinking. I appreciate the opportunity to share it. The difference in behaviour of a Harryproa and a conventional boat would...
Excellent advice if you are going to be using the boat in boiling water. If you aren't, don't waste your time. Assuming you will use at least 3...
There is no reason to fly (as opposed to launch and recover) the kite from a mast and several reasons not to. If attached to the deck, capsizing...
Too true. A kite boat is very hard to capsize, a kite proa near impossible. All the loads are on the deck. As long as the extension of these...
Lucky you, it's a great little boat. I have no memory of how the beams were made. Sorry. The correct repair is to replace the beam, or at...
4m sheets of ply are handy, albeit difficult to move around without help. You don't have to infuse the carbon, you can wet it by hand and vac bag...
When strip planking was common in Aus (I was supplying epoxy to 30 builders of cats over 30' long within 30 kms of my shop and was only the third...
This is a drawback of the ship's outboard on the tender. If you are doing a lot of motorsailing, it is not a good solution. On the cargo proa, I...
