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Re: Material: Carbon Fiber -vs- Wood
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 11/13/2009, 9:20 pm
In Response To: Re: Material: Carbon Fiber -vs- Wood (Chris Ostlind)

: Building a foam cored composite hull, be it carbon or glass, does
: not require a mold. Just female stations and form stringers.
: Very simple stuff, really.

: You learn to do this by building something small, like bulkheads
: and then move to more complex forms. I know all sorts of
: builders who will not build a stripper of any kind because they
: perceive it to be too complex and fiddly compared to stitching
: together plywood. A foam cored boat build is no more complex
: than a wood stripper, yet, there is a lingering perception that
: it's difficult.

: There are raw beginning boatbuilders who are constructing F-22
: folding trimarans in 3/8" foam core with glass laminates
: and the boats are turning out beautifully. There's absolutely no
: reason why a canoe, or kayak, could not be built by a beginner
: with similar results.

I've done it on big boats, last one was a 30 ft. monohull for a friend of mine. Still it's more work than I'd put up with for a single boat.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Material: Carbon Fiber -vs- Wood
Kim -- 11/10/2009, 5:06 pm
Re: Material: Carbon Fiber -vs- Wood
Greg H -- 11/16/2009, 3:16 pm
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kiim -- 11/18/2009, 8:39 pm
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kiim -- 11/18/2009, 4:52 pm
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kiim -- 11/17/2009, 7:35 pm
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kiim -- 11/20/2009, 8:17 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/22/2009, 12:43 am
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Aaron H -- 11/12/2009, 6:23 pm
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Chris Ostlind -- 11/13/2009, 12:16 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/13/2009, 11:12 am
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Chris Ostlind -- 11/13/2009, 11:47 am
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Mike Savage -- 11/13/2009, 12:56 pm
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Chris Ostlind -- 11/13/2009, 1:15 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/13/2009, 4:02 pm
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Chris Ostlind -- 11/13/2009, 5:14 pm
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Jay Babina -- 11/14/2009, 9:56 am
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 11/16/2009, 12:43 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/17/2009, 1:11 am
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Etienne Muller - Ireland -- 11/14/2009, 3:15 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/14/2009, 10:06 am
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Mike Savage -- 11/14/2009, 8:09 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/14/2009, 10:04 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/13/2009, 9:20 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/13/2009, 9:21 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/13/2009, 12:36 pm
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Aaron H -- 11/13/2009, 9:40 am
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Greg H -- 11/12/2009, 12:07 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/12/2009, 2:03 pm
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Craig Robinson -- 11/12/2009, 5:42 pm