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I failed to enter my message yesterday. I'll try again. Thirty or so
years ago the Constant Camber method of cold-molding boats was invented by some multihull designers who were working for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Bank to help Third-World fishermen repatriate their boatbuilding, and do it with indigenous materials mostly, and return to easily-propelled forms that might relieve these fishermen from the need for imported motors and fuels. In general, though the method is great for building certains families of forms with any wood you can slash into veneers, and only the glues needed to be imported, the projects in various parts of the world generally faltered: fishermen didn't want to go back to oar and sail, and corruption carried off the money. I don't know who builds in Constant Camber now except a for an occasional big multihull. And myself. I have built about 66 small CC rowing and sailing craft, canoe bodied, and the method is marvelously efficient for such boats, cheaper than making equivalent boats out of purchased flat plywood, and resultes in light, strong, durable, low-maintenance boats, easily driven. But to get to the important part of this note, it's just a warning against trying to deflect the fishermen from their customary boat types. It does seem to be one of the best places to put aid: into restoring the fishing fleet; but I don't know why it can't be done real fast with brute money and available boats that are much like the ones we've all seen trashed by the wave. There must be many with this impulse to help, and I have assumed that people much more knowledgeable than I are on the scene already, bless them. |
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Hi
You write it yourself "thirty years ago or so". But this is not what will spark a fast rebuild it will not make the new jobs it is old technikes what do you expect. Now about my role in this please read the following text, please ask yourself what ansver is relevant, protecting the dead profets hounting the real visionary ; "Then one who studied the law come to him and ask --- not to get an ansver but to justify himself, Guess we all know this kind of questions they ask only in the hope that the one who ansver, will ansver in a way that will make him "impossible" in the minds of those who listen, or by twisting the words make the ansver silli ---- and if he do not ansver or ansver somthing they don't expect they will display a head shaking attitude saying "there you se" ." In this group you se the ansver in this tread, this is not about helping those who suffered to make the new hope or create the new jobs, to do that you must invest in the new options realise the digital tools that is so different from old fasion building a boat or building a house , --- now just wait , there will be yet another hatefull usenet fanatic with just another filth ansver somone who will display the social skills that is praised in this group. P.C. |
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