Laminating Boat Ribs

I am planning to build a kayak style boat using two pieces of poplar wood for the sides which will recieve the ribs.

Laminating boat ribs. In addition anyone doing major repairs or building boats from scratch would be able to use the same resin matrix for filling and fairing as they had used in the laminating process. The wooden frames are made of parallel pieces sandwiched between t. When wetting out small patches of carbon fiber i find it easy to judge when it s wet out. One cue is that the weave remains prominent though wet.

Laminating techniques the easiest way to lay up a fiberglass hull is by hand in an open mold. Someone with experience laying up glass boats without bagging should develop the style to graduate to carbon and kevlar without floating the layers in a sea of resin. The crudest method is to simply slap it on with brushes from buckets of catalyzed resin. In this video lou shows how he laminates the frames on his norwegian built 8 metre 1948.

Eastern cedar in 16 lengths is impossible to find and western red cedar is too pricey for me. Laying up a whole boat. In a guideboat the strips lay flat against the ribs and the strip surfaces align evenly requiring only a minimum of scraping and sanding to fair the joints between strips.