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Wandering off the reservation
By:Pete Rudie
Date: 2/27/2002, 8:06 pm
In Response To: S&G: Why is there no info. on tortured plywood boats? (Paul Pinder)

Or maybe not. The link will take you to a designer of multihull sailboats built using sheets of 3 mm marine plywood laminated over forms with a constant elliptical shape. Then reflected sides are cut out and S&G'ed together into very elegant and efficient hull and outrigger shapes. The plywood is not so much tortured as coaxed into shape using an amazing technique that Hughes calls Cylinder Molding. Not sure why, these are not cylindrical cross sections, but the name stuck. The designer says he can lay up half a 36' hull in 2 hours, while an experienced boatyard has done one in 38 minutes!

I'm looking at a trailerable trimaran in the 23'-27' range for somewhere down the line...

Kurt Hughes Sailing Design

Messages In This Thread

S&G: Why is there no info. on tortured plywood boats?
Paul Pinder -- 2/27/2002, 4:18 pm
Re: S&G: Why is there no info. on tortured plywood
garland reese -- 3/2/2002, 9:21 am
Re: S&G: Why is there no info. on tortured plywood
Joe -- 3/2/2002, 12:50 pm
Re: S&G: Why is there no info. on tortured plywood
garland reese -- 3/2/2002, 6:21 pm
My Bad, Sorry Garland!! *NM*
Joe -- 3/2/2002, 6:29 pm
Re: S&G: Why is there no info. on tortured plywood
david -- 2/27/2002, 10:06 pm
Wandering off the reservation
Pete Rudie -- 2/27/2002, 8:06 pm
Re: And theyre fast!
Don Beale -- 2/27/2002, 9:30 pm
You can use the same process for a racing shell
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/27/2002, 11:59 pm
Re: You can use the same process for a racing shel
Eric -- 2/28/2002, 4:37 pm
Re: S&G: Why is there no info. on tortured plywood
LeeG -- 2/27/2002, 7:32 pm
Re: S&G: What's the Distinction?
Chip Sandresky -- 2/27/2002, 7:04 pm
Re: S&G: What's the Distinction?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/27/2002, 7:49 pm
Re: a timely post
Ross Sieber -- 2/27/2002, 6:52 pm
Re: S&G: Why is there no info. on tortured plywood
Shawn Baker -- 2/27/2002, 6:33 pm
I've paddled that boat!
Ted Henry -- 2/27/2002, 7:50 pm
Re: I've paddled that boat!
Pete Rudie -- 2/27/2002, 8:18 pm
Re: I've paddled that boat!
Shawn Baker -- 2/27/2002, 11:19 pm
Hrrrrrmmph
Pete Rudie -- 2/28/2002, 12:22 am
Re: Hrrrrrmmph
Shawn Baker -- 2/28/2002, 11:05 am
Plywood doesn't talk, even when tortured :) *Pic*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/27/2002, 6:04 pm
Re: S&G: Why is there no info. on tortured plywood
Joe -- 2/27/2002, 5:41 pm
Re: S&G: Why is there no info. on tortured plywood
Myrl Tanton -- 2/27/2002, 5:06 pm
Re: S&G: Why is there no info. on tortured plywood *NM*
Shawn Baker -- 2/27/2002, 6:33 pm
Re: S&G: Why is there no info. on tortured plywood
Liz Leedham -- 2/27/2002, 4:56 pm
Re: S&G: Why is there no info. on tortured plywood
Paul Pinder -- 2/27/2002, 5:03 pm
Re: S&G: Why is there no info. on tortured plywood
Ross Sieber -- 2/27/2002, 5:31 pm