Which material should be used to build a boat ? ? ? ?
 

Metal, wood, plastic,rubber or stone?

What do you recommend?

Bruno Beam wrote:
Metal, wood, plastic,rubber or stone?

What do you recommend?

Its got to be stone. Ideally Lanhélin blue granite.

To maintain optimum structural strength, Bruno, you should carve it from
a single 50 tonne block using only hand tools. Tell us how she sails
when you've finished. Owing to the limited interest in stone boats,
progress reports will *NOT* be needed ;-)

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The vessel 'Maen Vag' (and her building)
Weight: 3.8 tons
Length: 4 m
Width: 1.85 m
Height: 1.70 m
Draught: 1.06 m
Gross tonnage: 1.13 tonnes

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But once carved, should the interior be sealed in epoxy, spar varnish or
paint? (g)

"Ian Malcolm" wrote in message
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Bruno Beam wrote:
Metal, wood, plastic,rubber or stone?

What do you recommend?

Its got to be stone. Ideally Lanhélin blue granite.

To maintain optimum structural strength, Bruno, you should carve it from a
single 50 tonne block using only hand tools. Tell us how she sails when
you've finished. Owing to the limited interest in stone boats, progress
reports will *NOT* be needed ;-)

This would be a good place to use the spray on truck bed liner material!
Would make the smooth shiny granite non-skid.
You *were* going to polish the stone, right?



"Auerbach" wrote in message
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But once carved, should the interior be sealed in epoxy, spar varnish or
paint? (g)

"Ian Malcolm" wrote in
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Bruno Beam wrote:
Metal, wood, plastic,rubber or stone?

What do you recommend?

Its got to be stone. Ideally Lanhélin blue granite.

To maintain optimum structural strength, Bruno, you should carve it from
a single 50 tonne block using only hand tools. Tell us how she sails
when you've finished. Owing to the limited interest in stone boats,
progress reports will *NOT* be needed ;-)

I'm not sure how to mount gronicles to a granite hull.

Auerbach wrote:

But once carved, should the interior be sealed in epoxy, spar varnish or
paint? (g)

"Ian Malcolm" wrote in message
...
Bruno Beam wrote:
Metal, wood, plastic,rubber or stone?

What do you recommend?

Its got to be stone. Ideally Lanhélin blue granite.

To maintain optimum structural strength, Bruno, you should carve it from a
single 50 tonne block using only hand tools. Tell us how she sails when
you've finished. Owing to the limited interest in stone boats, progress
reports will *NOT* be needed ;-)

Jim C says:

I'm not sure how to mount gronicles to a granite hull.

If you build it correctly, you shouldn't NEED gronicles ;-)

Jim Conlin wrote:
I'm not sure how to mount gronicles to a granite hull.

ahuh-huh-huh-huh... he said "gronicles"

DSK

Bubble gum!

Auerbach wrote:
But once carved, should the interior be sealed in epoxy, spar varnish or
paint? (g)

Stephen Baker wrote:
Jim C says:


I'm not sure how to mount gronicles to a granite hull.


If you build it correctly, you shouldn't NEED gronicles ;-)

Exactly, after all, the Celtic monks didn't think they were required
either. Mind you, they had God on their side. For those of us of lesser
faith, they should be socketed into the granite on a well tarred gasket
of unwashed lambs wool felt (ideally from the first borne lamb of your
flock), retained by bronze or preferably monel cramps locked into their
holes with either a pour of molten lead or sulphur depending on whether
a deosil or widdershins correction is required. I leave research on
esoteric questions like whether one should mount three or seven
gronicles each side, or the correct wiring or the oiling and general
maintenance schedule to the reader.

I like the idea of using Rhinoliner, Much lower maintenance than the
traditional tarred leather :-)

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"Ian Malcolm" wrote:
Bruno Beam wrote:

Metal, wood, plastic,rubber or stone?

What do you recommend?

Its got to be stone. Ideally Lanhélin blue granite.

To maintain optimum structural strength, Bruno, you should carve it from a
single 50 tonne block using only hand tools. Tell us how she sails when
you've finished. Owing to the limited interest in stone boats, progress
reports will *NOT* be needed ;-)

Auerbach wrote:
But once carved, should the interior be sealed in epoxy, spar varnish or
paint? (g)

Well I am somewhat of a traditionalist, so its got to be paint. Ideally
finley ground red ochre in a base of boiled flax seed oil, lanolin and
fish oil, but I guess one could stretch a point slightly and use red
Damboline.

Oh dear, I forgot to remind Bruno to fit and USE jackstays. I would
suggest that webbing is too vunerable to chafe against a granite hull so
he needs wire jackstays and a well fitted chain harness and safety
line. None of these nasty karabiners though, too unreliable. A good
galvanized shackle with the thread of the pin dipped in a mixture of sal
ammoniac, treacle and fresh iron filings so it doesn't work loose would
be a *much* better idea on each end. After all we would'nt want
anything to happen to him. ;-)
Oh Dear, I forgot to tell Bruno to fit and use

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