The Gougeon Bros on Yacht Construction
Is available for free download here:
http://www.westsystem.com/ss/assets/HowTo-Publications/GougeonBook%20061205.pdf
Category Archives: Building Technique
More Fiberlay Classes
Again Fiberlay classes.
Basic Composite & Mold Making Training Classes!
Saturday, May 10, 2014 9am – 3pm and again maybe you can get in for no cost if you note that you are one of my builders.
Fiberlay – Seattle
24 South Idaho Street, Seattle, WA 98134
Please see the links below for more information:
http://www.fiberlay.com/emailblast/TrainingClasses-5-10-14.pdf
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McMaster-Carr
I get all my needed and possible fiberglass products here at McMaster-Carr. http://www.mcmaster.com/#
I mostly buy G-10 fiberglass sheets to fabricate into door flanges, winch bases and the like. My friends at CSR Marine buy reams of the stuff.
Chris Anderson’s 20m Catamaran
We finally get to see some pictures of Chris Anderson’s cat that he designed and is building. This is going on in New Zealand. North Island I think. This is a CM (cylinder molded) developed plywood vessel. Chris goes away back on the process. In fact he is in the original CM video.
If I may throw in a bit of bio: Chris led the team that designed the fly-by-wire controls for the Boeing 777. I’m surprised he has not also been interviewed by Wolf Blitzer this week.
Being from the antipodes, Chris did not know about Autocad, so he designed and used his own 3D modeling CADD software.
This unit will have 6 unstayed masts. I recall seeing the rig arrangement fastened to the top of his car; he was conducting tests.
Good stuff and great to see it move along.
A little hull layup…
Upgraded the video on this a bit: The layup on a 68′ cylinder molded hull currently under construction in Roatan: it’s speeded up quite a bit, this is about 25 minutes of real time. the half hull panels are approximately 11′ x 71′ – 4 layers of 3mm plywood and 33 gallons of epoxy.
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