Farr 3.7

OK I am somewhere between B & C. Howevewr woodworking skills and equipment are zero. So I would like to find someone to build a bare hull for me from a kit provided by ???

Jeremy I like this idea, perhaps someone should approach the boys in Romsey to see how much.

Edited by Contender443 - 11 Nov 11 at 9:40am

Building a jig and knocking out a few foam hulls is something less that rocket science. You don't need to flop a mould of an existing boat, and it may not be worth it for a ahort run. A jig can be pulled up out of cheap materials. There's also the advantage that a boat built on a plug and faired and painted tends to work out lighter than a boat finished in a female mould with gel coat and so on.

I must say UKP1,000 sounds extraordinarily cheap for a female mould. Its not so much the cost of the materials and time taken to flop the mould off that costs, you understand, its the work getting the boat that is acting as plug up to a high enough standard of finish. If its a normal used boat like most others then she'll need to be repainted, faired up and refinished, preferably to a mirror finish. Then Jack gets to be without his boat whilst all this is done.

Edited by JimC - 11 Nov 11 at 10:05am

Jack... thanks ,.... very useful info!

but surely getting  a foam hull is  easier than building a ply one, It doesn't need to be in carbon, and the rest can always be built in ply if wanted?Working foam is a hell of alot easier than ply.