Time Lapse: i550 Sport Boat built with WEST SYSTEM Epoxy 

There is no fiber cloth inside? Is this boat going to sail in a bathtub?

700 hours at let's just say $20 an hour for rough estimate = 14k + materials. What would a similarly performing vessel cost new? I get it it takes a real enthusiast to dedicate him/herself to a project like this. To take the time to put your own hands and intelligent design on materials shaping and forming them into an artful and purposeful craft is a lifetime achievement. Personally I like to repair broken items and learn about them in the process. Often people discard things that can be

nice work!

Could you let us know, did the design work well for you during the race?

GREAT Good job!

Unless the carbon is designed to take ALL the load, it is totally pointless to use it on a boat whose main strength comes from plywood. The modulus of elasticity of carbon is so much greater than wood, it will take all the loads imposed on it. If it is strong enough for that, fine. If not (and a couple of layers as shown are not) all it does is crack everywhere as the plywood underneath flexes. I see this kind of thinking all the time and it does not work, just ads cost.

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Carbon fiber is used mostly because buyers of expensive boats are totally ignorant of what it is and what it does, but it sounds cool so they pay enormous amounts of money so they can brag to their friends that they have carbon fiber boats. The Gougeon Brothers know this. And yes, I read all their technical books by the way. They know their stuff and I am sure they are aware of the technical futility in combining two totally different materials.

Why no bulkheads?

sweeeeeet!!!!

Carbon fiber has lots of useful properties. But overlaying a plywood structure with a few layers is not a very efficient use of the material - unless you even understand what modulus of elasticity means, you do not understand anything I am saying here. Mixing materials with different moduli like this is pointless from an an engineering point of view. People who know nothing about structures will buy anything as long as it has CF in it because they have been told it cool/stuper strong/whatever.

I would bet the West System Epoxy writes me back telling me that boat is worth $42,999.

I bet they don't keep that up for 8 hours !

looked like one layer. with overlaps alone the chine.

woooow

May I have the size and design?

too much work

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Very unhelpful.

Thanks for nothing.

I knew you could build a boat in 3 minutes. now where's my fast forward button.

Damn. That was awesome! Soooo many questions! I am going to examine it frame by frame!

Looks like a good boat, simple in design and to build. Looks pretty fast in a good wind. It is build to be a winner and not to sail around the world for comfort and endurance. Nice work for a given purpose.

No word on how the boat performed. I think it was to heavy (way to much reinforcing.)

ithought they were just really fast

At minimum wage the labor only is 10, 000.00 Dollars! 20,000.00 at boat craftsman wages. For a small plywood boat? add the expensive West System supplies and holy crap! Ha,ha...

a lot of work maybe, but sweet result. beautiful boat.

How long did it take in real time? Me and my mate sent off for our plans two weeks ago so they should be arriving any minute, This video has made me chomping at the bit even more!

As an ex-wooden boatbuilder with 30 years of this type of work under my belt, no wonder I feel exhausted on ocassions !

Just a stripe of Wood please.... or it may as well be a plastic boat ;/

That was awesome and fun to watch thank you for posting

@hebemalakas It took around 700 man hours.

Bravo ! ça c'est vivre avec bonheur sa passion !

Ok no more Starbucks for you guys...

That is a lot of glass, Kevlar for a sailboat. Yikes

well done nice video :-)

Carbon fiber is in everything top of the line because it works. That's not hype or idiots that buy it. Look at a simple fishing pole. If you want to use a cane pole and act like you know more than the idiots that buy graphite poles, go for it. Who is ignorant??

ABUSO!!!Awesome!!

The building jig is unstable. See how it moves. However: Looks great in the end. I wish I could show up with a similar own video ... :)

And yes, I have the Gougeon brothers books and generally they don't do this kind of thing. Probably a customer insisted on this, certainly no engineer would. CF sells . Especially to the ignorant.

Damn was that guy standing fiberglass with no shirt on?!?!?

Beautiful boat, but I'm a bit old and can't quite move as fast as those guys. They did a wonderful job and built a beautiful sailboat.

Well I'm sure you know much more about this stuff than the Gougeon Brothers. I mean what do those amateurs know about wood and epoxy and all that stuff?

did I see carbon fiber in there? I am not even sure what I saw.

Are the Pontoons for this boat?

Anyone know if that final color was Fighting Lady Yellow?

PDZ1122 don't know where your getting your info. I am an advanced composite professional which includes carbon graphite impregnated with epoxy resin. Every material out there has a different molecular structure. Which would mean you could never mix anything. When working with composite materials you control the strength and elasticity with the layup orientation of the CF material. Just a little info for future reference.

Is that carbon fiber they used for the bottom ??

Nice info, thx for sharing

I barely know anything about boats, if they used wood, how did it turn out so smooth and glossy white in the end?

One person at 10 hours a day- 70 days. It's not rocket science, dude!

Now build the other half.

Nice

great music. I could picture the lone ranger on silver.

Wow, cool boat. Nice lines

To fast

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how much did all the material cost?

The music good

Excelente,👍👍👍👍

typical business talk how long in day increments

And what did we learn from all this??? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Great advertisement for a product.

I'm not actually arguing with you. Personally I don't think epoxy should be used on wood period. Partly for the same reason you stated earlier. Expansion differential. Plus, if water does get past the epoxy, thru a scratch or even a pinhole, it never escapes and it only promotes rot. Read Dan Danenberg's book on restoration of old wooden boats. He says the same thing.

An all plastic boat (Fiberglass) boat is the way to go nowadays...they last forever!

"Easy as that!"

Very disgusting video, it seems that people are afraid of learning. So fast, is it necessary?

Awesome!!! Were i can buy the project?

Why did it take so long?