You should have done the ultra sound as a pre inspection item. That way you'd know exactly how many plates were thin. Yes, I work with wood -...
Looks like he bought a rust bucket. Fixing up a Benatau is completely different than working with steel. I know because I worked with steel and...
That depends on the boat. I've converted a few old trawlers, selling off the rigging to scrappers, having seakeeper installed and cleaning up the...
My family has built a few of them, but you are right there no online plans for them. We built them for the massively popular Turk and Croat...
Hull Materials: 5052/6061/6063/3003 aluminum in various extrusions and sheets Too light - you'd need to use plate alloy and weld it. Better...
The pinger is only activated when it goes underwater. The one on USAirways 1549 into the Hudson didn't activate because it wasn't underwater....
Maybe on a lightweight ship, but mostly the ones I built we used 5/8-7/8 on the keel and 3/8 on the hull sides. Decks are generally 1/4 as are...
I asked my son, who is a cargo pilot on a 744, what he thought happened. He said the black box transmits on 37khz and the pings detected were at...
I'd still be looking in the Moluccan Straits instead of Oz. The sat data was inconclusive and the pings picked up were in the wrong khz range....
Many West Coast (read BC) builders are ahead of their time in aluminum work. Google "Origami" boat building for more answers. I've worked with...
.375 or 9.5mm would be fine on the keel, but not on the hull.
FYI - As a notification: Capt Sam - my Father (reefhunter) who up until this month was planing to build a metal sail cat left this world on the...
That's what I would have done BEFORE making any changes. Too late now.
Odds are the a/c is in one of two places: Diego Garcia - where it's been cut up already and two somewhere in between Penang and DG. No...