You are obviously making excellent progress. At least one of the professional designers seems to claim that foam sandwich is the quickest method for home boat building, but you do seem to be doing remarkably well with good old plywood and sticky stuff. Have you any thoughts on how these methods compare? - seems that with foam sandwich you are partly making the sheet material yourself, with plywood you buy the basic sheet ready made, either way there is a lot of finishing work.
As you can see, I've used foam for the cabin top so hopefully less framing will be required beneath as well as a bit if cedar strip. Foam is about 3x the cost of the average sheet of ply I've bought, but no doubt discounts could be has if buying enough for a whole boat. In the US, the market for "homebuilt" boats is so poor I think it matters little what material is used in say 20 years time as long as the boat is sound. Certainly in Australia or maybe Europe you might get much more for a foam boat. Not sure what I would use IF I were to ever do it again. A foam she'll certainly requires lots more work fitting bulkheads and bunks, etc. Check out the guy Zamboni Driver building the Foam Woods Romany.
You are obviously making excellent progress. At least one of the professional designers seems to claim that foam sandwich is the quickest method for home boat building, but you do seem to be doing remarkably well with good old plywood and sticky stuff. Have you any thoughts on how these methods compare? - seems that with foam sandwich you are partly making the sheet material yourself, with plywood you buy the basic sheet ready made, either way there is a lot of finishing work.
ReplyDeleteAs you can see, I've used foam for the cabin top so hopefully less framing will be required beneath as well as a bit if cedar strip. Foam is about 3x the cost of the average sheet of ply I've bought, but no doubt discounts could be has if buying enough for a whole boat. In the US, the market for "homebuilt" boats is so poor I think it matters little what material is used in say 20 years time as long as the boat is sound. Certainly in Australia or maybe Europe you might get much more for a foam boat. Not sure what I would use IF I were to ever do it again. A foam she'll certainly requires lots more work fitting bulkheads and bunks, etc. Check out the guy Zamboni Driver building the Foam Woods Romany.
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