Boat Build: Carbon Chainplates! [E76] 

Thats what she said

Yes, don't worry about the length. Can't get enough of cool stuff like this. As a structural engineer I like the simple load path, no shear loads, no buckling, no overturning moments, just everything in tension, using the best property of the material, and no peak stress anywhere.

Agreed don’t worry about making it to long love watching and seeing the transformation it’s awesome.

Go on the principle of "you keep talking, we keep watching!!!

We need a weekly 3-hour director’s cut!!

Good one! Or…glood one😜

I know of one more - youngbarnacles.

another one at @LivingontheOcean . Galvanic corrosion stainless/carbon?

@@susanKrose I'm just a layman, but yes - galvanic corrosion is apparently 'a concern' with regards to carbon fiber...

@@angela1984a Matt has made accommodation for the galvanic/stainless issue by separating the two elements with fiberglass. Hope that works long time.

I don’t think we are the only ones, but thanks😊

Me too.

Exactly

Thanks for your kind words and have fun on your wee wild adventure!

Thanks Liam😊

that's awesome you knew Plant!

Cool

you're ahead of us. we'll get to that next week!

glad it's helpful!

@@TheDuracellProject The method for the chainplate strapping certainly is. I'm trying to build my boat completely from composites and with as few through bolting as possible. In my experience as a sailor and as a boat builder/restoration tech. All of the weakest points in a boat come from the -added through deck and through hull fittings. Even though a modern sailboat is built from modern plastics/composites. Their problems and points of failure are usually in the areas where stainless steel and other metals are bolted to the boat. I'm attempting to use only composites and organics in my build. However, I find your project particularly interesting because of how you are redesigning that old race-boat to be a cruiser and liveaboard. I can see throughout its construction that it was heavily built. Those double knee deck to hull supports on P&S are just massive. I think it will make an incredible floating home/office/exploration vessel. I'm just not a huge fan of deep draft keels anymore. Having owned and restored a few. I found that I prefer wider, shallow draft multi-hulls for many reasons, just personal preference really. But I'm glad I found your channel. You're definately an innovator and you make really informative videos. I'm debating doing a channel of my own and documenting my build. It takes a lot of extra time and effort. I tried it before with my dual-sport motorcycle riding videos, and got bogged down in the video editing process to such a degree that I gave up on the idea. So, thank you. I know it's not an easy thing to do. But you do have a very helpful assistant there! Cheers and good luck!

Good idea, will do!