Doug all ready said it's heavier than he predicted. I bet it's up to
double what he estimated it would weigh.

Nah, it's about 12# instead of 11.


Joe wrote:
Funny..You said it would weigh in at 25lbs..Pretty good work to get it
down to 12 pounds Doug.


No, I said the bare hull would weigh 11# and the whole thing
(seats, oarlocks, gun'l rubrail, other hardware, etc etc)
might weigh in the neighborhood of 25#.

Right now I'm finishing the inner hull lay-up, and my guess
is that it weighs about 12 ~ 13 pounds. Easy to pick up with
one hand if you can get it balanced.



Hey Joe, didn't your parents ever teach you that it's poor
character to wish for bad things to happen to others?


I never wished anything bad to happen Doug, I thought your Dingy was
looking fine.

Oh, OK.... I thought you were gloating that it was heavier
than planned.


I'm sure you will get many years of good use out of it, not as many as
Aluminum but many.


Depends on how it's treated, of course. Aluminum at least
has a higher residual value at the recycle center. I'd be
very surprised if anybody could build a classic lapstrake 9'
dinghy, strong enough for everyday use, that weighed even a
hundred pounds much less 25. The aluminum center section of
a friends RIB (10' LOA) is pretty lightly built and it
weighs 130#.





The dinghy weighs about the same as 10 cubic inches of
aluminum. Could you make a dinghy out of that, Joe?


No way, could make a nice outboard engine block,

That's 10 solid cubic inches, not a mass capable of
enclosing 10ci of cylinder


could you do that with
foam and kevlar?


With the right cooling system, sure.

DSK