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The Gougeon brothers on boat construction : wood & WEST SYSTEM materials.

Excellect illustrations and pictures. Covers all phases of construction: estimating materials, tools, wood as structural material, safety, lamination techniques, scarfing, coating and finishing, lofting, molds, keels/stems/sheer clamps, laminated hulls, strip planking/composit, interiors, decks, har...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gougeon, Meade (Author)
Other Authors: Gougeon, Joe, Gougeon, Jan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bay City, Mich., U.S.A. : Gougeon Brothers, [1985]
Edition:New rev. (4th) ed.
Subjects:
Boatbuilding.
Bateaux > Conception et construction.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Before you build
  • Estimating material costs and labor hours
  • Tools and the boatshop
  • Wood as an engineering material
  • Buying wood
  • WEST SYSTEM products
  • Safety
  • Bonding and laminating techniques
  • Scarfing
  • Coating and finishing
  • Using woven cloth in Matrix with WEST SYSTEM resins
  • Lofting
  • Making mold frames and permanent frames
  • The foundation for the construction
  • Setting up
  • Keels, stems and sheer clamps
  • Laminated hulls
  • a general discussion
  • Building the mold
  • The mold method for laminating hulls
  • The strip plank method for laminating hulls
  • The Stringer-Frame method for laminating hulls
  • Hard chine hull construction using sheet plywood
  • Developing compounded shaped hulls with sheet plywood
  • Interior construction
  • Deck construction
  • Hardware installation.