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Wood & West System Materials.
To make this edition a richer resource for the 21st century reader, they have chosen to revise, reorganize and update the book, but not to rewrite it. To edit out less popular consruction methods like stressd skin or stringer-frame construction or replace fundamental building disciplines such as lofting with modern counterparts like, computer-assisted design (CAD) would rob the reader of choices. And so the book does include some things that they no longer do, but this information provides a historical perspective on how “modern” wood/epoxy construction evloved and potential techniques that could still be of interest to current builders.
The Gougeon brothers are the folk who developed the wood epoxy saturation technique and wood composite construction, as we know it today. For anyone building a wood composite vessel this is the book to have. The book gives excellent coverage of laminated hull construction, strip plank construction, tortured ply construction as well as the more traditional methods and finishing details.
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