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Zombie of Woodstock Zombie of Woodstock is offline
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Default A better boat building material

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:09:24 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote:

I'd like to see a true high tech wood composite. Maybe bamboo
alternating with carbon fiber/ epoxy and then bamboo running at right
angles to the first. This would be lighter and stronger than marine
ply. On the outsides it would be skinned with a lighter glass than we
use for boats now like my Tolman.


It's called cold molding.

http://www.cwb.org/cold-molded-boat-building-2009

Been around for years.