George,
Having read your posts for some months now, I'm at a loss as to why you have such a misanthropic attitude, and yet continue to ba a part of these discussions. You seem incapable of making any contribution without some slam about how everybody else is building boats incorrectly. You would have much more credibility if you were more forthcoming as to how you build your boats, and why your chosen methods are so notably superior to what everybody else is doing. The few construction details that you have let slip so far do not impress me as making the difference between a proper boat and a floating death trap as you seem to perceve many of these boats to be. At the risk of being preachy, you will find a much more receptive (and possibly even impressed)audience if you comment by example, and not by insult.

Regards

Jeff

: I should have said no one here does or believes engineering that does not
: support his point of view.

: You are a case in point.

: That indeed is part of the engineering. It certainly is correct. But then one
: might look at the engineering of polyester done by the military in the
: 50's and 60's. They found that by using fresh materials. They got epoxy
: like performance at poly cost. One problem in their solution was that each
: of the components of the polyester required storage (-40 C or F) from the
: time produced until the time used. While the military can do that and
: absorb the cost, most of us can not. There may be a low cost solution to
: the problems you quote. Since it is not to my benefit to find one, I will
: not look.

: People who build small boats are punished (or should it be pun-ished) as much
: as people who build large boats for their lack of engineering. While I
: believe the punishment should be swifter and harsher, it is not in my
: power to make it either.