[Public-List] Fascinating article on early day FG boat uilding

[Gordon Laco]

Hello again - 

Very interesting article - thanks for sharing it.

Gord #426 Surprise


On 01/09/13 2:23 PM, "Glenn" <brooks.glenn at comcast.net> wrote:

> Ahoy!
> 
> So I am rather tenuously clinging to remnants of my former nautical life
> during  my leisure hours here in the Arabian desert  town of  Abu Dhabi , and
> have somehow stumbled upon a most fascinating and seeming historically
> accurate online writeup regarding early day FG boat building.
> 
> thought I would pass along the link, as it has prompted me to think about the
> most pressing nautical question about Albergs I can imagine. First the link:
> 
> http://www.proboat.com/wood-to-glass.html
> 
> Now to  the great Nautical mystery of the century: why did Carl Alberg and
> other early day FG naval architects and their builders actually produce such
> massively thick hulls??
> 
> By way of firing the first salvo so to speak, let me say Ive never really
> bought into the 1960's naval legend that  naval architects like Phil Rhodes,
> Alberg, and others simply built hulls to match the scantlings of similar size
> wood hulls.  This explanation aligns with the fantasy that early builders and
> architects didn't know about much about FG structural properties, so built to
> match wood scantlings, even though the US Navy apparently did serious FG
> research during WWII, and  produced FG craft with these same architects and
> builders, etc.  
> 
> So I wonder, by the time Palmer Johnson built the first Rhodes Bounty, and
> Whidby followed a few years latter with the Alberg 30, why build to such heavy
> scantlings when they obviously knew a lot about fiberglass from their
> experiences in WWII, AND likely heard a constant barrage of  sales pitches
> from Owens Corning and other Material suppliers mentioned in the above
> article???
> 
> I ve always thought it would be fascinating to track down the history of our
> stoutly built hulls, So am hoping   someone  could fill in the details and
> maybe identify some early day references or quote surviving Naval
> correspondence that could tell the tale - nautically speaking.
> 
> Thanks much!
> 
> Glenn 
> Dolce 318
> 
> 
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