katysails wrote:
Doug,
As much as I hate qualifying anything BB sats, Mr Sails' Flying Dutchman
that he owned in the mid-70's was molded plywood.

Mr. Sails is a man of perspicacity & resource. I bet his also has
Elvstrom bailers.

Anyway there also were molded wood 470s which were quite high-dollar
racing machines in their day... if well taken care of they stay lighter
& stiffer than fiberglass ones.

If Boobsie-Bill has said 'molded plywood' I might have asked for
clarification instead of just busting "him."

Bluejays, Comets, Snipes, Windmills, and a bunch of other hard-chine
boats were built of plywood. Round-bilge boats have to be molded, and
many classes from Rebels to Thistles have been. Oddly enough Lightnings,
which are hard chine but have an arc bottom instead of flat or V'd, were
never built in plywood (at least not mass produced). They were planked a
variety of ways including double-diagonal with glue saturated cloth in
between.

But I digress. Sorry.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King