^ what Tops and seasquirt said + you can always shave a bit of if the mast fitting is too tight..
You are in Sweden, plenty of spruce and aspen growing in the forests. Ask some landowner to buy one.. or two. Spruce for mast and aspen for spars..
If I remember right FreeShip had valuations for tortured ply on hull designs. Long time when I used it so can't recal precisely how it worked.
Second Aspen which should be easily available in Baltic (at least Baltic aspen is sold to Finland). Easy to find relatively knot free and it's...
Laborious? Not, I made my 35' strip planking hull in 200h and it include sawing the strips from 36x120mm planks. Needs a good amount of clamps...
For strip planking you don't need 1st class wood as you can always cut of knots too big and go on. Besides spruce and asp (both good for strip...
IMHO you'd be better, easier and faster doing strip planked hull.
300gsm Biax goes well around R5mm rounded corners, even tighter. Just use a bit thickened epoxy beneath..
The amount layers doesn't improve the water tightness but the quality of layup and finish. Most likely the old top leaked thorough the holes for...
Strength reasons aside there's no other reason what-so-ever to use CSM. WR or Biax are easy to make watertight with thickened (w/ silica) resin.
Just the fact whatever the material, it needs to be engineered right as minimum. Over engineered has only weight penalty, maybe price too when...
Apparently it broke of the hull but you right and that might have made the difference with it..
Talking about breaking it down Radar Arch Fail - Cautionary Tale - Cruisers & Sailing Forums...
Depends of several factors, usually (as you say) which isn't exactly true...
That's the ABYC compliant installation which should be under review and to be updated in the near future AFAIK..
Is there any source about the connections and grounding AC (inverter, shorepower and generator) w/ DC on recreational boats?
Depends of the local prices but have not seen anywhere marine ply being cheaper than wood adequate for strip planking. Time.. it took me 200h to...
Ply is a bit heavy choice to use with carbon, you get cheaper and lighter with strip planked or cold molded with biax glass. Get Dave Gerr's book...
I'm using also basalt fibre (mostly glass and some carbon), great stuff IMHO..
Don't bother with imaginary numbers too much. Design displacement is there to verify you are not too far from it to make your boat unsafe. The...
