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  1. This a dinning room and a Firebug, which is a boat, and wooden, is been buit in it. Don
  2. First try was to make an hollow wooden mast. Birdsmouth, Parana Pine. The thing was beautiful but quite heavy and cracked in a poorly made glue joint. Then I went to an aeronautical junkyard in Campinas, and was lucky enough to find the right tube to the lower section. Middle section is not T-6 and upper section is wooden. Worked fine 'till now. If you
  3. Garry is right. Wire can tear the delicate ply edges in stress areas. The slightly big holes for the ties will be covered up anyway by the epoxy fillet and tape.
  4. bassoan, Welcome aboard! I had built a Core Sound 17 and a couple of Diva
  5. Thank you Steve. I'm sure you'll be ready soon for your Diva 2. Good luck and go for it!
  6. Hi Tom, yes, the second Diva was already built with a first class spanish cedar ply, no voids. But the source now is "there" in S
  7. Hi, long time no see. I don't post here very often but now I have a couple of pics Id like to share. I moved from Campinas, Sp - southeast Brazil, near S
  8. Jonas, I'm pretty sure that eucalyptus plywood mechanical properties are good enough. Everything will be epoxy coated and the hull exterior probably glass sheated too. Okoume is far more rot prone and "soft" then eucalyptus. I had built my Touch
  9. Coco, I don't want to hijack your thread but I can't resist: "Ol
  10. Little late for Christmas but a Happy and Prosperous 2006 for everybody. All the best from Ricardo, Karina and Tiago.
  11. oh, problems...around here sweating is what happens to you - not to the hull skin - all year round. ok, in south southeast areas 90% of the year...but it happens and it's a pain. insulation and not heating seems to be the answer to me. and it's always a paliative not a final solution.
  12. hey, take a look at this http://www.francois.vivier.info/albums/album_meaban_b.html the casting sequence pics makes it looking so easy to do it
  13. rob, then you have your halyard running inside the luff pocket? ric oh, now I saw the halyard running outside the pocket in the "spaghetti" close up pic. it seems a cool set up for me...
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