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by Brian Knight—GBI Technical Advisor Above: Scheherazade, the 154’7″ yacht that required testing of large bonded-in fasteners. Scheherazade is a 154′ 7″ Bruce King-designed ketch under construction at Hodgdon Yachts, in East Boothbay, Maine. Scheherazade is 60% larger than Antonisa, the last Bruce King/Hodgdon Yacht collaboration, and is the largest sailboat under construction in the […]
By Bruce Niederer — GBI Technical Advisor Above: Surprisingly, much of the damaged balsa core on TRIPLE THREAT was well bonded to the glass skin, as it was to this section of skin around the chainplate. The bad core that didn’t come out with the glass skin was removed with a chisel. I love my boat. […]
Do they interfere with adhesion? Above: Protective skin creams. Photo by Nati Melnychuk on Unsplash By Tom Pawlak — GBI Technical Advisor We recently completed adhesion testing for a boatbuilder who was concerned about surfaces being contaminated by workers who use protective skin creams. The builder wanted to be sure that residue from the protective […]
By Tom Pawlak — GBI Technical Advisor Above: A putty knife scraper is being used as a push scraper. My first experience with cabinet scrapers occurred shortly after hiring into Gougeon Brothers. Bill Slaby, a wood/epoxy technician who specialized in mold building, routinely used cabinet scrapers to remove irregularities on cured epoxy coatings.
By Kay Harley Above: ARION as she looked in 2001. Damian McLaughlin, a custom boatbuilder from North Falmouth, Massachusetts, has been designing, repairing, and building boats for more than thirty years. Recently, he finished the reconstruction of Arion, heralded at its launch in 1951 as “The first auxiliary sailboat built with fiberglass,” and “The largest […]
