Cherub over a cut dow RS700 hull

[ross_burkin]

Did anyone ever build a ply P7? How do you go about building a ply hull? I guess you just have panals cut to shape and you bend it round a jig, glue and clamp.

[Phil Alderson]

All the P7's were foam sandwich, however King Tubby a P6 was I think the last ply boat built

Have a look at:
Building in Ply

Basically there is a lot of mesureing and templating and carefull cutting of wood to be done. Then some gluing then loads of frames to stiffen the panels. Foam is much eisier

[mathew_harris]

would it be possible to build a wooden hulled boat that would take the strains from an 05 rules cherub?  i know that time wise this could take longer and be a lot more complicated, think i would be more inclined to throw a £100 or so at a wooden design hull as a bit of a laugh rather than spending many pennies on a carbon foam boat.

[ross_burkin]

EDIT:Started a new topic instead http://www.sailingsource.com/cherub/forum/index.php/topic,172.0.html