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![]() William R. Watt ) writes: I don't know if you've started to build but meranti (luan) plywood is cheap, rot resistant, and does not check. I assume because you are using lumberyard plywood, as I do, that you are interested in a cheap boat. I've built in lauan and virola (not rot resistant) and just painted. I've also fished from cheap painted (fir and spruce?) plywood punts. You can't get spruce plywood any more as far as I know. I should also note that when I weighed sheets of 1/4" plywood, fir was 22 lb, lauan (meranti) 17, and virola 8.5 lb. Lauan and virola are metric and actually 1/5". I don't recommend virola becase I don't think the boat will last long. I have used it for the light weight and because it bends to a tigher curve than the others. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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