Yep. There's a reason my father in laws commercial icebreaker hull is 100% glass, 19 layers of alternating mat and roving, with absolutely no wood in it.

> You'll probably want to shoot me after reading this, but I feel
> it is a valid point. How can you conclude that 50/50 glass-wood is
> the most optimal ratio? What about wood species, direction of grain
> (quartersawn vs, flatsawn), type of adhesive, b&c vs. flat/beveled
> (affects glue area), width of strips (MANY narrow ones vs. few wide
> ones)? I may be forgetting some really obvious ones, however, there
> are most certainly more, these were just the ones that struck me as
> being most likely to affect the overall strength. I suggested in a
> previous response that 100% glass should be the strongest for any
> given hull weight, am I wrong? I think that perhaps you should have
> mentioned that the results you obtained were highly specific to the
> above mentioned variables. Changing them, in my opinion, would have
> resulted in significantly different results.

> Looking forward to your response.

> Mike Spence