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Skin-on-Frame: Radius for corners under the skin
By:Carl Delo
Date: 7/31/2008, 12:02 am

I'm almost to the point of putting a temp skin on my SOF catamaran. It has some fairly sharp corners because of the hull shape - is there a recommended radius, say for a 90 degree corner? The chines, where the turning angle of the skin is not so much, I chamfered with a Slickplane and I think it's fine. I'm concerned about not using too sharp a corner under the skin (8.9 oz nylon from skinboat school) where it turns at a right angle. Everything has a 1/8" radius round over now, but maybe it should be a softer corner? Any opinions?

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Skin-on-Frame: Radius for corners under the skin
Carl Delo -- 7/31/2008, 12:02 am
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James -- 8/2/2008, 11:39 pm
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Toni V -- 7/31/2008, 2:06 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/31/2008, 5:36 pm
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Toni V -- 8/1/2008, 6:41 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/1/2008, 9:02 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/1/2008, 9:03 am
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 8/1/2008, 12:18 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/31/2008, 8:09 am
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Scott Shurlow -- 7/31/2008, 7:32 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 7/31/2008, 7:12 am
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Carl Delo -- 7/31/2008, 8:48 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Radius for corners under the sk
Bill Hamm -- 8/3/2008, 2:37 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 8/2/2008, 11:13 am