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- Subject: Re: wood or glass?
- Message-ID: <92323.093506KXN2@psuvm.psu.edu>
- From: Karl Nordstrom <KXN2@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:35:06 EST
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- Organization: Penn State University
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- >... don't let the rainwater get started on its trip down into the frameheads,
- >but that's difficult to do; many allegedly wonderful yards don't understand
- >how to keep fresh water out of a wooden hull. After the first two years of
- >neglect or careless maintenance, costs for the wooden hull begin to rise
- >geometrically.
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- What are frameheads and how do you keep fresh water out of a wooden hull?
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- >... if someone told me I was going to be given a twenty five year old hull,
- >sight unseen, I'd hope it was glass; I'd also hope it was solid glass,
- >uncored, and built before the manufacturers started to lighten up on the
- >scantlings to save money.
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- What are scantlings and could you give a good example of a boat with a solid
- glass hull?
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