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I'm not sure about the Phantom but the info I have from Dan Leech is ~£300 for the CAD files, 4 sheets of 18mm (good grade plywood for the jig), 4 sheets of 6mm Gaboon and 4 sheets of 4mm Gaboon marine plywood for the boat. Build time is around 60hours.
So I'm guessing about £1-2k to build the boat ready to fit out
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you forgot the extra gallon or so of epoxy and extra sheets of ply when you somehow manage to screw up the simple putting it together part  Wink

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I may be mistaken but I seem to recall some Merlins being built from a ply / foam / ply sandwich. Whether this would work on bigger panels as it does (unless my memory is playing tricks again) on a clinker plank I don't know. Cost is no doubt higher, too. There's also the rules adherence issue...
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Dave Rose used to build OKs in ply/foam/ply sandwich and they are super stiff by all accounts. They last forever too with a ~30yr old one getting 3rd in the Europeans a few years back I seem to remember.
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The OK is 11kg heavier, 42cm shorter and 39cm narrower than a Phantom. It has 3 full size bulkheads dividing the hull into four compartments*, and incidentally adding considerable rigidity and strength. The Phantom OTOH is substantially open with narrow side decks all the way from the mast to the transom which is going to lead to a less rigid structure.

* The basic principle is much the same as a box girder bridge, admittedly the Phantom has it's double bottom to add rigidity but it is never going to be as stiff as the full height box sections of the OK.
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Originally posted by KazRob

I'm not sure about the Phantom but the info I have from Dan Leech is ~£300 for the CAD files, 4 sheets of 18mm (good grade plywood for the jig), 4 sheets of 6mm Gaboon and 4 sheets of 4mm Gaboon marine plywood for the boat. Build time is around 60hours.
So I'm guessing about £1-2k to build the boat ready to fit out

Not sure about 60hrs, watched the video, lots more than 60hrs 
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I'm not sure about the Phantom but the info I have from Dan Leech is ~£300 for the CAD files, 4 sheets of 18mm (good grade plywood for the jig), 4 sheets of 6mm Gaboon and 4 sheets of 4mm Gaboon marine plywood for the boat. Build time is around 60hours.
So I'm guessing about £1-2k to build the boat ready to fit out

Not sure about 60hrs, watched the video, lots more than 60hrs 


60hrs is what Dan Leech told me it takes the average builder when I was as asking him about the kit set a few weeks ago.
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So Woodie Phantoms are heavier, less torsionally stiff, may not have compound curves, are using older rig and not double bottomed so may carry water.

Given the success of the OK plwood format could these problems be designed out if class rules were relaxed in some areas for wood boats?
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If plywood OKs are completely equal in performance to foam sandwich boats then that's surprising. Bearing in mind the far greater panel stiffness of foam boats it does seem unlikely. I certainly don't know of another class where its the case.
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Sam Spoons' thoughts could go some way to explaining why,Jim.
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