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Chuck Gould Chuck Gould is offline
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Default Custom Mahogany boats

On Jul 22, 7:53?pm, wrote:
On Jul 22, 8:16 pm, "Midlant" wrote:

There's nothing really molded about them. My brother is one of the
handful of men Hugh has building them. It's hand work after hand work in
a hot shop in southern Florida.
John


Soooo, this is really a spam for your brothers business eh! OK, still
don't like the lines but what do I know


"Cold molding" is a term used to describe a construction process where
wood strips or sections are used to create the shape of the hull and
are bonded together with resin. See the mfgr's statement about
manufacturing technique......

Been popular with one-off's for a long period of time. Creating the
molds is a huge expense in traditional FRP construction, to the point
where a few boats normally need to be sold before enough of the mold
cost is amortized to begin breaking even. With cold molding, there is
no mold per se. In some cases, the wooden strips are simply applied
directly to
the frames- almost like planking a traditional wooden boat.