Harry Krause wrote:
K Smith wrote:



Gees louise you really think a house frame is the same thing??? You
have no concept do you, try picking a wooden house up say 4ft by one
corner then drop it as you pick the opposing side up the same 4 ft.
You'll have barbie fuel for longer than it would take for you to tell
the truth about the time. Timber house bearers weight almost as much as
the highest loads they're ever likely to see & again if you stopped &
thought about things you'd realise whenever timber is used as a
structural load bearing materieal it's in compression, never in tension,
because in tension it will fail usually where the tension force is
applied. Boats aren't static they get constantly attacked by forces from
all angles, not to mention the regular tangles with a wharf or sandbar
at varying speeds.



Please explain in detail how the XL plywood stringer system in boats
engineered by Grady-White and some others are not up to the stresses
encountered in offshore fishing situations.




It might be a "normal" process when you glass over wood because resins
will not ever properly bond to wood


You ought to send your resume to Grady-White. I'm sure they'd be
interested in hiring you because in your opinion, the boats they build
are likely to fall apart any moment; their stringers are constructed of
XL plywood covered in fiberglass.

But what could Grady-White know about boat=building, compared to the
Australian bull**** artist, Karen Elizabeth Smith?

Gee now there's a killer rejoinder, some people still use wood
therefore wood must be good??? Harry if you had any education whatsoever
you'd never come out with these childish arguments.



Karen, I have more formal education that you do, and I know quite a bit
more about structural problems -without having to look up the questions
and the answers in books - than you will ever know. What you are
attempting to do here is to portmanteau a belief of yours into some
general rules about wood boat construction. The point is, properly
designed, engineered and constructed wood boat structure is perfectly
adequate for its purpose. Some boat builders know how to handle wood,
and others do not. Oh, and yes, the fact that Grady-White and some other
top-of-the-line builders still use wood does mean it is "still good."
Grady and several others have the wherewithal to build the stringers in
their boats out of any material they wish. They're not building price
boats.











I'd like to also disagree with this if I may. Hollow sections are

never

as strong as three dimensional webbed or bulkheaded sections. i.e. say
in steel a rolled hollow section (RHS) of a given weight is never as
strong as as a universal column (RSJ) of the same weight.


An important principle to keep in mind when building small boats, eh?

Yep absolutely if you can understand the general principles of how
materials are used you can use that in all sorts of innovative new ways,
do you want a link to the rec boats page for a classic example??



More Karen lifts from engineering webpages, but no understanding of
materials or applications.




Harry that was just a quick off the cuff answer to what I saw as a
sweeping statement about cored beams which I tried to counter & actually
explain why I disagreed. It's no surprise you can't understand it but as
with so many other things here at least I've tried.



Puh-lease, Karen. You've not seen nor have I ever posted one example of
my professional writings on building structure and the effects on it of
hurricane-force winds and seismic activity. I haven't done any of these
in at least 10 year, but at the time I was field researching,
photographing and writing these reports, they were quite accurate,
topical and well-received by their intended audiences.

I wasn't going to bother with you, but hey another lie to add to your
works, so I'll reply just to make sure I have it; thanks:-)



As I have explained here before, Karen, you are such a ****-poor writer
that I find spending any time examining your posts and posits painful to
my eyes. It isn't just the differences in "language," either. You're a
careless, sloppy writer, and your command of grammar, syntax, spelling
and word usage is fifth-rate. You would have flunked one of the bonehead
English classes I taught way back when.





As for the rest of your comments I guess all I can say is tell me where
I can even see let alone inspect other reasonable HP diesel OB motors, I
mean even Yanmar gave up at 40 HP so till you find the latest diesel OBs
in the same HP range as mine




Yeah, I'm sure the world is beating a path to your door. If your crappy
old slapped together diesel outboard is so great, why isn't anyone
substantial manufacturing it?


.......... The boat?? yep; she's old &

yes she works for her keep but it's my boat independently verifiable to
anyone, which is more than can be said of you or your made up fantasy

boats


Uh-huh. There's been verification that Yo Ho is our boat, dearie. You're
just in a permanent snit that someone did "verify" that and you refuse
to accept his word. The reality is, if I allowed you to see the
registration, you wouldn't believe that, either, because your ditzy
little mind is closed.

No chance!!!! absolutely none!! you're a lying BS'ter, no chance, you
don't own that boat any more than you've owned any of the other boats
you've claimed here. As for the other boat you currently claim to own,
the lobster boat, that's one of your bigger lies in a collection of huge
lies.


K