G'day,

We have a relatively low cost technique for building foam/epoxy hulls
(painted post mould) using cheap female moulds. It is a technique I used on
W (12m cat in NZ). Nothing very tricky about it, it just uses some new
technology in resins and mould releases.

I am pretty sure the overall cost will be cheaper (more expensive materials,
much less labour, lighter boat) than a strip planked boat, but until we have
built one, we won't know for sure. The plan is to build a mould for an
Elementarry (8m with 4m windward hull) to debug and improve the process,
then if it works, move onto bigger ones. We would also like to get an idea
of how long the moulds last, (they get heated to cure the resin, which
traditionally does strange things to moulds) and whether this can be
improved. For this, we need a few orders.

The moulds will be in Coffs Harbour (midway Sydney-Brisbane), from where
shipping via container would be the best bet.


Regards,

Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Baltaxe" <jim.baltaxe@...>
To: <harryproa@...>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:32 AM
Subject: RE: [harryproa] Moulds


> Hi Al
>
> I'd be tempted to say yes, but I'm not quite at the stage where I could
commit (anyone else) to anything yet. Can you say a bit more about the
implications? Where would it be located? What building techniques would be
used to take the hulls off it? Straight F/glass? Still strip-plank? Sorry if
these are dumb questions, but I'd like to know
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: colcampey [mailto:cjcampey@...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 11 November 2003 11:15
> > To: harryproa@...
> > Subject: [harryproa] Moulds
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> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How many list members would be interested in having hulls, for any of
> > the Harryproas, produced from a mould ( That's mold for our American
> > brethren ) to get a head start in the buiding of their boat? If there
> > are enough then the cost of the fairest, lightest hull becomes less
> > than a one-off hull, covering the cost of the mo(u)ld as well.
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> > Regards,
> >
> > Col Campey
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