foam

Dear All, I've been wanting to build a small boat (2 to 3ish meters) for a while, however I want to do so in an easy and cheap way with minimal tools. Rather than using plywood, complex ribbing and strip planking, or foam composite techniques to create a hull, what's stopping me from getting a...

I am trying to understand if PVC80 can be used in a build for bulkheads where M80 is the main hull (exterior) material. The only obvious difference is shear elongation at break, and of course M80s thermal conductivity. Is there any reason a full boat can't be built in PVC80? Is the elongation...

View of the cockpit area when the deck was first fitted to the hull. The mass of the complete deck is just under 200 kg and features carbon skins and a foam core. Both deck skins were vacuum infused with epoxy resin.

Preliminary design for a recreational rowing shell. Discussion can be found at http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2146

First time on the water, not very much wind... Feels great!

This is Hammer, a designed and built at home. Corecell foam cored 30' open sportfisherman.