Wooden boat advice needed

[pmagowan]

Wooden boats can take quite a lot of abuse. They are better in the water but I have seen many that have been out for ages fare well when launched as long as they have good pumps until she has taken up. If the wood is not completely encapsulated then it will not be dimensionally stable and it doesn't matter how much epoxy you put on the outside, the inside WILL move. You then have 2 boats, a grp one with a wooden one sitting inside it in a puddle. You may be able to 'save' a boat from falling apart this way but it is a nail in the coffin and if you are going to all the work of restoring her anyway she will be fine without it. I can not see the benefit and the disadvantages are clear.

I am planning on building a wooden boat and I will be encasing it in epoxy but I intend for it to be inside and out without even the tiniest hairline crack for moisture to be able to get at the wood. I think if the OP puts grp on this boat then it will just be holding a bag of bones when it dries out.

P.s. Use quarter sawn timber when repairing the hull.

 

[Lakesailor]

XOD owners disagree http://www.xonedesign.org.uk/maintaining.html

Boat yards disagree http://www.hainesboatyard.com/epoxy-coating.html

It's a matter of how you do the work. Just blathering the outside isn't the best plan.

 

[30boat]

XOD owners disagree http://www.xonedesign.org.uk/maintaining.html

Boat yards disagree http://www.hainesboatyard.com/epoxy-coating.html

It's a matter of how you do the work. Just blathering the outside isn't the best plan.

Interesting.But it goes against established wisdom doesn't it?

 

[Tranona]

XOD owners disagree http://www.xonedesign.org.uk/maintaining.html

Boat yards disagree http://www.hainesboatyard.com/epoxy-coating.html

It's a matter of how you do the work. Just blathering the outside isn't the best plan.

Just because it can work on X Boats does not mean it is suitable for all wooden boats. Firstly they have a reputation for being very stable structures, then the key point is that the hull is thoroughly dried out and the seams splined. It is not sheathed, but the timber is epoxy coated and painted. This means it is closer to a more modern strip planked hull than a traditional plank on frame with caulked seams.

 

[Lakesailor]

I didn't say it was suitable for all boats. Just mentioned it as some people have posted saying it should not be done.

Which is not correct.

 

[Tranona]

I didn't say it was suitable for all boats. Just mentioned it as some people have posted saying it should not be done.

Which is not correct.

Refer to post #9

The advice from most has been against sheathing, which was the original question, not against the use of epoxy resins.

 

[Lakesailor]

Indeed I mentioned that epoxy wouldn't be suitable in an earlier post after someone else brought epoxy up. But it can be in the right circumstances, so I highlighted that.

 

[Sandro]

I must terribly apologise.

Six years ago I started this thread. Then I don't know what happened to my brain: perhaps I did not read in the forum for a while, or my mind was busy with something else, or Dr. Alzheimer was beginning his action, I forgot completely to have asked advise.

What makes me so sorry and ashamed is that I did not answer nor thank the many Forumites that gave their opinion, based on their experience.

Tonight, looking for some other matter, I did a forum search and I discovered the thread. I really can't excuse myself.

About Cupido the work is still going on if slowly. The planking is finished, not sheathed but just painted with I think epoxy paint; the planks are free to move and breathe. Deck and doghouse roof renewed, Engine mounts system completely changed, a removable internal mast support added and other jobs that I now don't remember. Actual work is the whole interiors.

Again apologies and thanks to all who answered.

Sandro

P.S. I felt I must post this post. Otherwise I would not have dared to show up again in the forum.