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Is there any shear concerns with all those direction changes? I think you better check with JM to see if you need to modify the lamination schedule.
I had considered building the LB26 and own the plans and thought about building it in cedar strip even. I don't have to deal with the curves, but I figured there would be more longitudinal planking than transverse.
Sorry JM, I had recall of page 15 drawing of the book which is the plywood version. There are lots of longitudinal lines is all and I assumed strip version would be similar. Of course when you go to actually build, things change greatly.
Jeff wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 10:11 am
Reefie, beautiful work!!! Please continue to document well this build as it already has a large following!! Jeff
I mean no disrespect. None. Mine is a question based on intuition and not fact. I am not second guessing a designer/naval architect.
Plans call out the materials, but do not specify the direction of the strips. However, the reason I mentioned it is there is always a shear concern at bondlines, and it would increase if you run the strips across the hull bottom and change direction suddenly as he did especially from longitudinal to transverse. But the frames are not here, so I do not know for sure. I would have tried to strip it as the plywood was laid is all. Those bonds would absolutely be weaker than the sections themselves, so when he said the lamination was the same; I had to ask. I would have expected more of a weave to change direction.
It is just a question, and such a beautiful boat should not fail due to a construction error.
And this boat is going to get abused in that Austrailian wind, so it better be strong!