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It would be an interesting experiment. I would not expect the boat to last more than a season or two. I would not take it very far from shore, ie how far can you swim? In addition to the other things written here about OSB I'd also consider: - how resistant would the spray on truck bed liner be to scrapes? If the chips get wet they will swell. I'd put a pair of skids on the bottom to protect the hull from scrapes in hopes the boat would last longer. - once the chips in the board get wet and start to swell like the stuff you see left uncovered in sheds and other buidlings, I imagine it would be very difficult to make watertight again, ie hard to repair and keep watertight once it starts to go. - there's so much glue in OSB the boat will be heavier than plywood. I'd take a pair of bathroom scales to the lumber yard and weight a sheet, then calculate the weight of the boat before building it. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-FreeNet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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