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ready to put some boat on my boat
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:48:22 -0000, Two meter troll
wrote: On Jul 4, 5:05 pm, Bruce wrote: On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:00:07 -0000, Two meter troll wrote: On Jul 3, 9:58 pm, "Island Teak" wrote: "Bruce" wrote in message . .. Well, it is your boat of course. But, do give some thought to the reasons why people living in bamboo growing areas do not, as a rule, use bamboo as mast material even though they may well use it as battens in junk type sails. How are you planning on treating the bamboo , on the inside, with epoxy? Drilling a hole in each section and pour in epoxy, slosh it around and pour it out? Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeatgmaildotcom) Exactly...bamboo is a great and stong material , temporarily. Great to roast your sticky rice in, but as a boat building material..... why would anyone consider using it ? ...Ken actually it is used in boat building just not by rich folks; my time in SE aisa was spent looking at boats made of bamboo either bundeled or single lashed boats. these are all small water craft that see use and repair often. the stuff is just not used long term. OTH treated bamboo seems like a really good idea since the thing makeing it unsuitable for boat building is it's splitting. IMO glassed and internaly coated would work well. sorry folks i have built several commercial fishing boats and have almost always tried to figure a way to use bamboo. Well, I've lived in SE Asia for 30 years and I haven't seen bamboo used to build boats. What I have seen is bamboo used to build rafts by lashing bundles of bamboo together -- by people too poor to be able to afford wooden boats. I have also seen it used to make battens for junk type sails where it lasted about one year. I did ask the blokes running the junk "why bamboo" and they answered "cheap". Probably some of the last commercial sailing boats were the Bugis schooners from S. Sulawasi that didn't use bamboo to build their boats. Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeatgmaildotcom) -- Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com modern: http://www.bambooboats.com/prototype.html This looks like bamboo covered with some form of goop. I've seen the same thing done with PVC pipe. traditional: http://www.bamboocraft.net/gallery/s...y.php?cat=3043 Exactly what I described - poor folks, a bundle of poles lashed together and next your you get to build another one. http://www.vietnamboats.org/bambooboats.htm Pictures too small to view but one boat looks like the"basket boats" I saw in Nha Trang Vietnam. Again, a new boat every year. But the fact that you can do something does not mean that it is the best way to do something. If the vast majority of boat builders in countries where bamboo grows do not use it to build boats then a canny bloke would, perhaps, begin to wonder why not? As I mentioned above, the Bugis, who have been building wooden commercial sailing vessels for at least 400 years do not use bamboo in any meaningful way. Is there a reason why? Bruce in Bangkok (brucepaigeatgmaildotcom) -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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