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From: Lew Hodgett (no email)
Date: Sat Aug 14 2004 - 18:18:13 EDT
Len den Besten writes:
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> For serious offshore sailing I think a grp boat is not
> suited. I even think grp is no serious boat building
> material. When you want to protect a grp boat against
> osmosis (and you should) you have to haul out every
> winter and let the wetted surface dry out. Or suffer
> costly consequences. I think that's hilarious.
> In a metal boat you always have a dry bunk... grp
> boats will often leak on the deck/hull-joint.
> In a metal boat you're a lot safer...
> And cause I don't want to always remove rust or have
> paint I prefer aluminium.
Just which metal boat do you wish to nominate for target practice with a
copper jacketed .357 magnum?
My Airex cored, knitted glass and epoxy hull had no problem. It stopped
the slug dead from 20 ft away.
I keep the test piece around just to document the test.
It also has no osmosis problems, that's a polyester problem, not epoxy.
Don't kid yourself, steel boats of less that about 75 ft are either a
"slug" because they are so heavy or the metal is so thin that you can
read a newspaper thru it to keep the weight down.
Either way, rust from the inside will sooner or later get you.
Aluminium has it's own set of problems, but that is another story.
Either way, if you are set on having a metal boat, then have the Dutch
build it. Metal is their thing.
Lew
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