I received a reply from paulownia.it.
Mechanical properties of this wood are very good, really comparable with
the best Red Cedar.
There are large areas of new platations in growing, mostly in the North
Italy plans, but not yet considerable productions.
Price is still too high: 800-1000 Euro / cube meter.

1000 euro for what? green wood, plank or strips? It would be different...
Anyway 1000 euro/cube meter is interesting...
Last year, I was evaluating Woods designs and I have requested the price for
WRC, planks to be cut in strips, and it was higher... and I was forced to go
the extreme north or to extreme south of Italy to find some WRC.
For a cat similar to the one that I am building (cat 254 from Fisher) 1 M^3
of wood is more than enough for hulls, if memory helps...
I would gather more info...
A comment... Designs like Dudley Dix radius chine, can be built using strip
planking for the chine sections, in place of cold molded panels... You
agree? :-)

Paolo

"Paolo Zini" wrote:

Price is still too high: 800-1000 Euro / cube meter.

1000 euro for what? green wood, plank or strips? It would be different...
Anyway 1000 euro/cube meter is interesting...

Price is for planks.
I wish it will reduce dramatically in few years ;-)

Last year, I was evaluating Woods designs and I have requested the price
for WRC, planks to be cut in strips, and it was higher... and I was
forced
to go the extreme north or to extreme south of Italy to find some WRC.

I did not find any merchant with WRC in stock, in South Italy
Could'You send me their address in private, if You have still them ?
You know, for my costumers ;-) (leave "s" from nautikits dot com).

For a cat similar to the one that I am building (cat 254 from Fisher)
1 M^3 of wood is more than enough for hulls, if memory helps...
I would gather more info...

Yes, almost two boats ;-)
If You like, I will send You the pouwlonia.it reply in attachment (about
600Kb with a .pdf document).

A comment... Designs like Dudley Dix radius chine, can be built using
strip planking for the chine sections, in place of cold molded panels...
You agree? :-)

Maybe for the larger boats like the Didi 40cr.
I should ask Dudley ( who is moving his office to U.S.A. in these days).
But I think Radius Chine is a very fast and simple method for plywood.
Recently Dudley drew a wood version of his fine Vickers 45AC, with a layer
of strip planking.

Ciao
Leo

if anyone's interested I found some old photos of the strip planked
sailboat I once owned and put them on my website ( see below) under "Boats"
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