[Ferro List] Jay Benford, Boat Designs

[Christopher Glasspool]

Mud-Dauber's,
 
The most live tested piece of ferrocement history must be the late 60' and early 70's, when a sudden surge of ferrocement interest occurred. One of the interesting designers of the time was Jay Benford, who wrote a very interesting book on the subject. What interested me most was where he was headed with ferrocement when things went unfortunately flat, and that was boats under thirty feet. He did this with using half inch square - 19 gauge steel mesh and keeping the total ferrocement thickness below quarter - inch in thickness.
Her is a link with a picture of a 12' deep keel sailboat, that weights in at 300 lbs - that is very comparable with a cold molded fiberglass boat - www.benford.us/scp/12keelboat.html Also interesting is this article of his on ferrocement and what crashed the market. Scroll down for the ferro portion; www.benford.us/index.html?articles/index.html 
- chris


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