Have a look at http://www.ok.yachting.org.au/?Page=52418 - they have produced a great looking boat from a kit, using different techiniques to those outlined in the plans.
The folks there have produced what looks like a very stiff structure, a lot of work has obviously been done to produce the kit, and then put the kit together to form the boat. I certainly look forward to seeing pics of the finished boat.
......any, I will blatter on with my bulkheads and frames!
I had been wondering about overall stiffness of the hull, and how this could be increased with plywood webs, or beams, without increasing the weight substantially. I will leave wondering about this until I need to..............more important now to get the bulkheads set up!
I don't think you need to worry about the overall stiffness of the hull: because it's a box structure it's massively stiff already. More important is getting the bottom stiff: it shouldn't tramp as the boat goes through waves. The other thing that quite often needs a bit of extra stiffening is the cb box: it needs to resist bulging on the windward side. Dave
ReplyDeletebtw - if you're passing through dublin at any stage, i just bought Chris Arnell's old 2015. it's a bob hoare hull, recently redecked and masted. i suspect it's the only one in dublin now that tim goodbody has sold his.
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