Derek Posted April 18, 2003 Posted April 18, 2003 with an AR fine furniture finish? Coffee table with sails? :wink: A full keel armoir? :wink: Quote
Craig Posted April 18, 2003 Posted April 18, 2003 In answer your first question Jake, the term you are looking for is "composite". Quote
capt jake Posted April 18, 2003 Author Posted April 18, 2003 Is composite truely correct?? I think of composite as including carbon fiber or graphite in the mix. :? :? :? Quote
Derek Posted April 18, 2003 Posted April 18, 2003 a simplified, stressed-skin plywood box-section hull from Stevenson's site. Quote
capt jake Posted April 18, 2003 Author Posted April 18, 2003 I am simply putting, "Plywood"! :shock: :? 8) :x :oops: :roll: :idea: So there. Quote
Johannah Posted April 18, 2003 Posted April 18, 2003 No, no, no, no, no! Much too simple and straightforward. I double dog dare you to make a label incorporating all the sweetly helpful suggestions humbly offered here by your devoted friends. Quote
capt jake Posted April 18, 2003 Author Posted April 18, 2003 Double dog?? I HATE dogs! Plywood it is...nothing further.., Plywood. ..just an ol' plywood boat..... Don't EVEN bring those foul things into a conversation about boats. :D Oops, I just stepped on a land mine, or was it a 'dog' mine???? Out of the fear of PETA; I will cower in my shell of a home; for fear of being hunted down like a dog. Arrff arrf!! Quote
Sequimjim Posted April 18, 2003 Posted April 18, 2003 OK the new guy's turn! How bout the term stitch and glue? That is how I refer to my drift boat construction, don't know why but that's how they describe it in some of the literature I have read including " The Epoxy Book " by System 3 epoxy. I fastened the bow and stearn together with string than I proped and tightened and tweaked and twisted and turned and bent and spread and pushed and grunted till I liked what I saw! Than after a reasonable amount of chin rubbing and an ample amount of wine, I ribbed to the shell. The last main thing I did was put the bottom on. Long answer but there you have it, Stich and Glue!!! Jim Quote
Derek Posted April 18, 2003 Posted April 18, 2003 'Stitch and glue' actually refers to the process of taking two pieces of plywood, literally "stitching" them together with copper wire, zip ties, etc. and then filling the seam with a thickened epoxy, whereas not using stringers, screws and glue. Phil Gowan, though, did build his Weekender using the stitch and glue method and told me via email last winter that his boat is still holding up quite well. I had actually considered this method for a while. Jake! How about screwed and glued!!! :wink: Quote
MikeStevenson Posted April 18, 2003 Posted April 18, 2003 We're fairly proud of the fact that these are monococque hulls: No framing. In a monococque structure, whether it's a Weekender, a Mosquito Bomber, or a D Jag, the skin of the machine IS the structure. On some machines, like people, the internal frame takes the loads and the skin is just a cover. A monococque structure, like an egg, gets its stiffness from the outer shell. These are monococque plywood constructions of a modified Dory or Sharpie hull. If you don't want to say plywood, use something like bi-axial cellulose laminate, or as if it's glassed, cellulose-core composite construction (although this could just as easily refer to a Balsa-cored boat, but neither would be inaccurate). Try to avoid stitch-and-glue, as it's inaccurate (and we don't like the concept much around here.) Mike Quote
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