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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 4113
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 19, 2018 - 12:39 pm: | 
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robert
Senior Member
Username: robert
Post Number: 941
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - 08:05 pm: |
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And of course what was needed was galvanized iron hulls, with galvanized iron frames, preferably pressed from a single sheet, in two halves joined along the keel, stem and sternpost. Despite the now amazing ease of designing and making dies for complex shapes with compound curves, no one seems to be making power or sail boats with pressed steel or for that matter aluminum, hulls. The presses available today, particularly offshore, could be banging out these hulls by the thousand. Make the interiors on a pre-fab basis with a fixed range of options like a pre-fab house. Make them so the interiors can be taken in and out in sections without unduly compromising the integrity of the hull; what could mean an easier refit than that? The sailboats even come with a nice boom to help you do it! Or is boating in decline like everything else not involving the use of a touch screen exclusively? |
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