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Subject: Re: [world-cruising] Re: Cruising boat search
From: Lew Hodgett (lewhodgett@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 20:46:40 EST
Somebody wrote:
> Just for curiousity sake, how does an Airex cored hull
> stand up over time to the rigors of grounding and
> such? My first thought is that they would tend to be a
> problem. Anyone know anything about this?
I'm building my boat using knitted glass, epoxy and Airex.
My guess is that you will not find another one like it in the world.
No proof, just a hunch.
At one time, my sig file contain the phrase, "Home of the bullet proof
boat".
There is a very good reason for that.
Took a cut off piece of the above hull sandwich to a shooting range where
I had also acquired a lot of lead for my keel.
Hung the sandwich piece up as a target and had at it with a 0.357 magnum
from about 20 ft.
All of the projectiles were trapped in the Airex, none penetrated the
rear skin.
Does that mean a reef can never puncture a hole in an Airex cored boat?
Hardly, but care to try the same 0.357 magnum test with a steel hull?
Lew
S/A: Challenge (Under Construction in the Southland)
There are no problems, only varying degrees of Challenging opportunity
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