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Bondo is probably to brittle, as is plastic wood. the best stuff to
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As much as I love old wooden boats, (sell my soul for a llyman) and at
the risk of bad karma, I would rather see your project rot behind your
doublewide. Besides, anyone who would consider filling a beautiful
wooden boat with plastic wood, has obviously never worked on a real
wooden boat anyway, save a plywood skiff. Try the builders group,
maybe someone there doesn't know you yet.

On Apr 30, 3:46 pm, wrote:
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Bondo is probably to brittle, as is plastic wood. the best stuff to
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As much as I love old wooden boats, (sell my soul for a llyman) and at
the risk of bad karma, I would rather see your project rot behind your
doublewide. Besides, anyone who would consider filling a beautiful
wooden boat with plastic wood, has obviously never worked on a real
wooden boat anyway, save a plywood skiff. Try the builders group,
maybe someone there doesn't know you yet.

This is funny, harry has to pretend I am in his imaginary kill file

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Lyman, not llyman. So why not buy one? They are readily available and
fairly inexpensive.

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Lyman, not llyman. So why not buy one? They are readily available and
fairly inexpensive.




A fiberglass Lyman (with the mold pulled off an actual hull), and with a
mahogany interior (decks, seats, floorboards) would be nice. Those
riveted clinker-built hulls of the original Lymans were a pain in the
ass. Cruisers and Thompson bolted their hulls. Lymans had wonderful
lines, though.

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As much as I love old wooden boats, (sell my soul for a llyman) and at
the risk of bad karma, I would rather see your project rot behind your
doublewide. Besides, anyone who would consider filling a beautiful
wooden boat with plastic wood, has obviously never worked on a real
wooden boat anyway, save a plywood skiff. Try the builders group,
maybe someone there doesn't know you yet.

Actually, bondo isn't that bad an idea as long as it's used for
fairing. There are a bunch of silicone based marine bondos out there
that are pretty stable and will flex. It the boat is painted that
shouldn't make a difference anyway.

I don't know if this is totally accurate, but I have it on good
authority that the Amistad had some planking problems which were
faired with bonbo. :)