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Default Solid Glass Hulls


"Joe" wrote in message
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Bart wrote:
Cruising sailboat with a solid glass hull, that are without any
core material or framing, are either very ____ or very
_____. 1 pt


Junk or Junk???

If you wan't a real boat without frames of any type have a strong
Yacht buildt out of Aluminum. If I could afford a new build this would
be the boat.

http://www.strongyachts.com/images/d...endering_3.jpg

No framing what so ever.

Joe


Then the bulkheads and deck act as frames. Their is no torsional rigidity in
hull w/o frames. They will self destruct quickly.