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Re: Material: styrofoam boats? *LINK* *Pic*
By:dave
Date: 8/4/2008, 12:45 pm
In Response To: Material: styrofoam boats? (PatrickC)

Funny you should ask. I've been steadily working on my interpretation of a Morris recovery kayak using the plan you just outlined. Its my first build so I'm no expert, I just liked the idea of being able to round off the chines and edges, which would be easy to do with styrofoam.

I've got a couple pics up, I'll snap more as I go along. Its basically being built like a SOF frame but will be skinned with the Owens Pink foam that one of my local Home Depots has available. The shearclamps (gunnel would be too robust a term to describe them) are 3/8ths thick. I think its probably overbuilt but, like I said, its my first build.

Fast build? Well, its taken me a month of sundays, optimistically speaking, to get this far. I've got a life, which often gets in the way.

: What is the feasability of making forms from the 2" thick 8'x4'
: styrofoam sheets from home depo? Then you could add forms between the
: forms to fill in all gaps, sand smooth and glass it over...then do the
: cockpit.

: Sounds like a fast way to make a boat?

Messages In This Thread

Material: styrofoam boats?
PatrickC -- 8/2/2008, 12:30 pm
Re: Material: styrofoam boats?
Bill Hamm -- 8/5/2008, 5:12 am
Re: Material: styrofoam boats? *LINK* *Pic*
dave -- 8/4/2008, 12:45 pm
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Chris Ostlind -- 8/4/2008, 4:44 pm
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Chris Ostlind -- 8/3/2008, 12:18 pm
Re: Material: styrofoam boats? *LINK*
Mike Wolfson -- 8/4/2008, 6:47 am
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PatrickC -- 8/4/2008, 9:00 am
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Charlie -- 8/4/2008, 10:10 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/3/2008, 2:12 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/3/2008, 2:09 am
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Charlie -- 8/2/2008, 1:22 pm
Re: Material: styrofoam boats? *LINK* *Pic*
Glen Smith -- 8/2/2008, 1:16 pm
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Charlie -- 8/2/2008, 1:36 pm
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Glen Smith -- 8/2/2008, 2:31 pm
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Glen Smith -- 8/2/2008, 2:41 pm
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PatrickC -- 8/3/2008, 12:35 am
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Charlie -- 8/3/2008, 11:20 am
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PatrickC -- 8/3/2008, 1:08 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/4/2008, 1:20 am
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PatrickC -- 8/4/2008, 10:29 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 8/9/2008, 5:53 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/10/2008, 1:27 am
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PatrickC -- 8/10/2008, 9:32 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/11/2008, 1:37 am
Re: Material: styrofoam boats?
Bill Hamm -- 8/5/2008, 5:08 am