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Ian Malcolm
 
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Bruno Beam wrote:
Metal, wood, plastic,rubber or stone?

What do you recommend?


Its got to be stone. Ideally Lanhélin blue granite.

To maintain optimum structural strength, Bruno, you should carve it from
a single 50 tonne block using only hand tools. Tell us how she sails
when you've finished. Owing to the limited interest in stone boats,
progress reports will *NOT* be needed ;-)

Anyone else, ***XPOST TO scot.tld REMOVED***

The vessel 'Maen Vag' (and her building)
Weight: 3.8 tons
Length: 4 m
Width: 1.85 m
Height: 1.70 m
Draught: 1.06 m
Gross tonnage: 1.13 tonnes

http://www.granitbreton.org/fr/process/vaisseau.htm
OR
http://translate.google.com/translat...=fr%7Cen&hl=en



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