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Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
By:george jung
Date: 5/20/2012, 11:17 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces *PIC* (ancient kayaker)

: If you're serious about keeping weight down it is best to minimise
: epoxy and avoid glass altogether IMHO. That is easier to do on a
: plywood boat than with a stripper.

: Rose Lee is slowly nearing completion after a year long delay.
: While she is about 50% stripped (ply bottom and sheerstrakes)
: she will not be glassed: I built her with laminated ribs to
: provide the cross-grain strength that a stripper normally gets
: from glass and epoxy. The scuppered gunnels add needed stifness.

: I expect her to weigh less than 20#

Interesting approach - have you built in this manner before? I'd expect seam breakdown, without the glass, on a stripper, over time. (Lot's of disclaimers in that one, eh?)

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Looking for Ounces
danperry -- 5/20/2012, 6:19 pm
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
lewisb -- 5/20/2012, 9:48 pm
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
george jung -- 5/20/2012, 9:56 pm
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces *PIC*
ancient kayaker -- 5/20/2012, 11:00 pm
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
danperry -- 5/20/2012, 11:16 pm
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
george jung -- 5/20/2012, 11:17 pm
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
ancient kayaker -- 5/21/2012, 9:18 am
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
Allan -- 5/21/2012, 1:02 am
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
Malcolm Schweizer -- 5/21/2012, 9:56 am
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
Bill Hamm -- 5/22/2012, 1:44 am
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
Bill Hamm -- 5/21/2012, 2:02 am
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
Malcolm Schweizer -- 5/21/2012, 10:02 am
Re: Strip: Looking for Ounces
Bill Hamm -- 5/22/2012, 1:46 am