Need Laminate Advice
 

On Jun 3, 3:36 am, Bruce wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:13:53 -0700,
wrote:





On May 31, 11:12 pm, Bruce wrote:

I suggest that you have a look athttp://continuouswave.com/whaler/reference/13/
Much better information about the Whaler 13.

Down toward the bottom of the page there is a picture of a whaler with
the stern cut off to show the construction which appears to be
essentially a foam boat with inner and outer skins.

First of all I think you are starting on a much more complicated job
then you realize but having said that here is the way I'd do it.

I have built, lofted and spiled a few wood and wood and glass boats, I
don't think to much of it will surprise me labor wise, I am pretty
good with epoxy and glass, and I have plenty of time to do the
project.

Snipped a bunch

I had sort of assumed from your question that you had not built a lot
=:-{

If you have any software for boat design (something like HULLS) it is
easy to design a new hull and develop offsets. With that you should be
able to loft the hull so it would be easy to come up with a whaler
look alike.

Just casual looking at a Whaler it looks as though one could build it
out of plywood or perhaps use just a bit of foam if the ply got too
tortured but essentially I suspect that you could build it as a
plywood boat rancher then a foam/ply boat and depending on the
thickness of the ply you probably wouldn't need very thick glass. But
if you are covering foam try to use a bit thicker because it really
doesn't stand up to punctures very well.

Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeatgmaildotcom)

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Please don't take me wrong, I did not mention my experience as I was
coming here for informaiton on laminating wihich I know little about
and did not want to come off as some snot nosed kid. ;) Your
informaiton was perfect and convinced me to go ahead and loft out a
hull of plywood instead of fooling with the foam. I spent a day or two
with the Carlson program and I have something here I think is not only
beautiful, but do-able in ply too. If anyone is interested I can
provide more information. I had never seen a decent ply knockoff of a
Whaler before, but I think I got a nice hull here to build. I will
keep you all posted.