On Sat, 17 May 2008 06:41:58 +0200, "Steve Lusardi"
wrote:

Wilbur,
Compromises are made everyday by everybody simply because the best is rarely
available all the time. Secondly, monel, copper-nickel-steel, cunifer,
whatever you want to call these alloys are not without their own detriments.
They are 1/2 ton heavier per cubic meter than stainless, they are much more
expensive than SS, they have very poor strength to weight and very low
fatigue resistance. The number one failure mode of parts made with these
alloys is cracking, are you sure you would want a hull made of this stuff?
That would be about as dumb as Cor-ten.
Steve


Steve,

What is wrong with using Cor-Ten? I thought that this steel was the
best in amarine application.

Peter