[Ferro List] Jay Benford, Boat Designs

[paul at ferrocement.net]

Hi Chris,

I once asked Martin Iorns which of the FC boat building books he thought
had value and he recommended Benford's book. He liked that Benford used
the 1/2" mesh instead of chicken wire and kept the shell of the boat very
thin compared to Sampson and some of the others. I have a copy of the book
and in it is a sample of the mesh that was used.

Paul

> 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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