Ooh boy! what a subject! replying to this one will open up a huge can of worms, but we'll give it a go. First, fiberglass is low maintenance, but...
Ok, Maybe I should have said that water takes a long time to migrate across the core. Whenever you find a crack in a cored fiberglass hull or...
If you fill an aluminum hull with foam you may prevent air from touching the aluminum hull, which can prevent the aluminum from self oxidizing...
End grain Balsa core does not rot when the core material is fully encapsulated in fiberglass. Styrene in the core stops any rot. When water gets...
To some extent the type of boat you are going to design will govern the type of formulas you want. Peter Du Cane's High Speed Small Craft has...
