Beginners Noob questions materials etc

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  1. rangebowdrie
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    rangebowdrie Senior Member

    Inverted vs right-side-up building is dependent on more than one parameter.
    The Herreshoff yard regularly built 50' boats with conventional carvel planking in an inverted position.
    They had overhead gantries and chain falls and found that building inverted was faster and less tiring
    on the workers.
    The Elco PT boats of ~85' were all mass produced inverted.
    We also see these quite large cold-molded yachts being built inverted, putting on thousands of little strips with epoxy and billions of staples is not fun on a right-side-up hull.
    For a solo workman inverted construction works good for plywood.
    Carvel and Lapstrake planking can be a personal choice, (what am I more comfortable with?).
    I'll say one thing, nothing will wear you out like fairing and sanding a right-side-up hull.
     
  2. wet feet
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    wet feet Senior Member

    That last sentence contains more truth (and probably painful experience) than most things you will ever read online.
     
  3. Will Gilmore
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    Will Gilmore Senior Member

    I grew-up around the Clearwater Bay Marine Ways, watching boats being built by Clark Mills. It just seems very odd to see a right-side up boat being framed and skinned. However, I've thought about building a 50'er in steel, and I think I'd do that right side up. It just seems easier to tack the plating to the frames that way.

    -Will
     
  4. rangebowdrie
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    rangebowdrie Senior Member

    Oh yea.
    A 50-footer in steel? Yeah, I'd probably do right-side-up too, the crane costs, (assuming the cranes have easy access,) for a steel boat that size might be horrendous.
     
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  5. gonzo
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    gonzo Senior Member

    A 15 ton crane costs about $1200 a day and $3,000 a week.
     
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