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Jul 15, 2011 12:10 AM CST
Name: Gordon
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HS...well.. you're already paying extra for the rope... so guess money is no object.. or you really don't want to chance dropping it...... and unless you already have the wand.. you can get the same effect with a few holes in your hose...
don't go getting upity on us..
Chris...yes the concrete boats are amazing... some 40 years ago I took a tour aross the country looking at them beng constructed there were piles of them being done... saw many dozens of them... vancouver.. had them lined up along this waterway.. some were so fine... one done by this concrete mason was a sleak 52' cutter .. and all were strong... able to take a grounding on coral with out damage.. maybe only an inch thick along the water line... 3-6 layers of wire mesh on each side of the rebar.. tied together with a mllion + wire ties.. actually a wire boat with the holes filled in with concrete during one day's pushing the concrete through/into the wire... then a finshing team would smooth and feather the top coat... applied with concrete pulled from the batch that did that secton of the hull.. so it was at the same level of cure that the underlayng stuff was.... then cured wet for a month.. often under the old fibereous carpet underlayment.. to cut down erosion by the continually sprayed water...... as the longer you can delay the final cureing the stronger it was../is.. ..
yes I was consdering buldng one.. but never did... just expermented some with it n art projects... then went onto thinking of a foam boat... I started one but then got hit by the 70's recession... lots of foam boats pictured here... some gigantic
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