West system epoxy and our wood/epoxy boats: what does it mean when we say, "built with west system® epoxy?" west system is the brand name for marine epoxy products produced by gougeon brothers, inc.these products include the base resin, several hardeners with differing properties, fillers, and supplies.. Wood boat building wood epoxy boat plans boat plans sailboats trawlers yachts. wood or timber boat designs can be built using wood epoxy, strip plank, diagonal cold molded or a combination of these methods.. However, despite being used to build grp boats they are not suitable for building with wood. epoxy type resins have superior ability to bond to wood. they are much less porous and have superior gap filling ability..
Composite wood-epoxy boats can, of course, be repaired, usually by methods using lots more epoxy, but you can't unbolt and replace pieces. some of us would argue that this is outweighed by other advantages of epoxified construction, at least for some applications, but to each his own.. Last summer i sailed the 277-boat, bacardi bay view mackinac yacht race aboard meade gougeon’s trimaran adagio. prior to the race, i visited yare, a wood epoxy yacht built by victor carpenter in the early 1960’s.jan gougeon and gougeon technical advisor jim derck served their boatbuilding apprenticeships with vic building this 36′ sparkman and stephens design.. How to laminate wood with epoxy for wooden boat building (part 1 of 2) two progressive bevel sawn laminates and then glued together with epoxy. wood with epoxy for wooden boat building.
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