On Jul 5, 12:48 am, Two meter troll wrote:
On Jul 4, 5:05 pm, Bruce wrote:



On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:00:07 -0000, Two meter troll

wrote:
On Jul 3, 9:58 pm, "Island Teak" wrote:
"Bruce" wrote in message

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Well, it is your boat of course. But, do give some thought to the
reasons why people living in bamboo growing areas do not, as a rule,
use bamboo as mast material even though they may well use it as
battens in junk type sails.

How are you planning on treating the bamboo , on the inside, with
epoxy? Drilling a hole in each section and pour in epoxy, slosh it
around and pour it out?

Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeatgmaildotcom)

Exactly...bamboo is a great and stong material , temporarily.

Great to roast your sticky rice in, but as a boat building material..... why
would anyone consider using it ?

...Ken

actually it is used in boat building just not by rich folks; my time
in SE aisa was spent looking at boats made of bamboo either bundeled
or single lashed boats. these are all small water craft that see use
and repair often. the stuff is just not used long term. OTH treated
bamboo seems like a really good idea since the thing makeing it
unsuitable for boat building is it's splitting. IMO glassed and
internaly coated would work well. sorry folks i have built several
commercial fishing boats and have almost always tried to figure a way
to use bamboo.

Well, I've lived in SE Asia for 30 years and I haven't seen bamboo
used to build boats. What I have seen is bamboo used to build rafts by
lashing bundles of bamboo together -- by people too poor to be able to
afford wooden boats.

I have also seen it used to make battens for junk type sails where it
lasted about one year. I did ask the blokes running the junk "why
bamboo" and they answered "cheap".

Probably some of the last commercial sailing boats were the Bugis
schooners from S. Sulawasi that didn't use bamboo to build their
boats.

Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeatgmaildotcom)

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modern:

http://www.bambooboats.com/prototype.html

traditional:

http://www.bamboocraft.net/gallery/s...y.php?cat=3043

http://www.vietnamboats.org/bambooboats.htm



sorry i forgot a couple:

http://www.acclaimimages.com/search_...mboo_boat.html

http://www.asiacard.co.uk/ecard929.html