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Re: S&G: Glassing opinions
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 9/2/2013, 12:25 am
In Response To: Re: S&G: Glassing opinions (Marc Upchurch)

The Tornado was very likely hot molded ply, they were ok, but tended to start to delaminate at the ply edges, were built way before epoxy glass became popular. There were quite a few hot molded one designs at one time, if they were well cared for some are still going strong. The Tornado's were VERY lightly built to get the weight down so had more issues, fast though.

I sailed on a few hot molded Thistles and Highlanders, both one designs built by the old Douglas and McLeod in northern Ohio, now Tarten Marine I think. Worked for them one summer assembling rigging, ancient history .

Bill H.

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S&G: Glassing opinions
Navin_R_Johnson -- 8/31/2013, 9:31 pm
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Greg_H -- 8/31/2013, 11:28 pm
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Navin_R_Johnson -- 9/1/2013, 12:26 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/1/2013, 4:57 am
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Navin_R_Johnson -- 9/1/2013, 12:45 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/1/2013, 2:22 pm
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Navin_R_Johnson -- 9/1/2013, 3:08 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/1/2013, 4:02 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 9/1/2013, 7:21 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/1/2013, 7:56 pm
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Navin_R_Johnson -- 9/1/2013, 10:29 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/2/2013, 12:28 am
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Charlie -- 9/7/2013, 12:45 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/2/2013, 12:25 am
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bsoderholm -- 9/2/2013, 12:52 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/2/2013, 7:52 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/3/2013, 12:16 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/3/2013, 8:16 am
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Etienne Muller -- 9/2/2013, 5:06 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/3/2013, 12:19 am
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Sam McFadden -- 9/3/2013, 2:57 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 9/3/2013, 9:14 pm