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Chuck:

The inventor of the stitch-and-glue boatbuilding technique died at a good age a few days ago, and I thought people should know about it!

Bucknell didn't design the Mirror on his own - as this link shows - but in working with Holt he created one of the biggest boat fleets ever seen. More important, however, was his masterstroke invention of stitch-and-glue epoxy-glasss tape construction, which revolutionised backyard boat building.

https://www.ukmirrorsailing.com/mca/history.htm

Mankind has been sewing boats together for a very long time - it would be interesting to find out whether Bucknell knew this at the time.

https://www.foteviken.se/sewnboat/

https://www.abc.se/~m10354/bld/goa.htm

You and I both know that there are any number of people building and offering stitch-and-glue boats - but the comment I'd make is that almost without exception they don't mention the technique's inventor. I think Bucknell's contribution in this area is all but forgotten.

Cheers, Gav

Hi there,

a new interesting trimaran is offered by Ray Kendrick, Austrailia. The tri is what americans would call a tiny, little pocket cruiser, but good enough for inshore and offshore voyages. It will be fast, because of the modern shape of the hulls. The designer put an eye on the weight while constructing and building the tri as a prototype!

It will be possible to build it in your backyard or in a huge garage. Homebuilding kits will be available with precut parts out of plywood. You can do it in GRP, too, if you will use Airex formed over the bulkheads. Plans are going to be very detailed, and you will get templates in original size! Generic the plans will be measured with metric informations, if you need imperial, contact the designer and ask for!

Here is the link of the new Scarab 22:

https://www.kendrickdesign.com.au/

Make you dream come true and build it on your own!

Ralph-Peter Paris
Germany

Go and have a look at www.woodenboatparade.co.nz for the sortofmessabout that I was judging a couple of weeks ago, good fun. Like a cross between the events at Lake Tahoe and a low key messabout.

John Welsford

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Hello:

Progressive Epoxy Polymers, Inc. has just posted a new web
page that explains what/how to compare different marine
epoxies from a chemical composition perspective, rather than
just based upon gross properties.

The URL is as follows:

https://www.epoxyproducts.com/mepoxies.html

thanks

Paul Oman