Gday, i am looking at my first trailer sailer a 6m sonata swing keel, on inspection it all looked pretty good until i opened the veberth and smelt fibreglass ( i used to repair my own surfboards) immediately caught sight of a patch about 450mm long and 250 mm wide, typical blueish colour of a mitre 10 repair kit.. As the standard boat design for the replacement of wooden boats. the design of this boat is similar to the wooden boat except fibreglass is used for the hull and superstructure construction. the boat was not built in accordance with the appropriate practices of frp boat building. for example the unnecessary use of wooden frames and stems and extra. 1. introduction 1.1 what is frp ? the term frp is generally accepted to mean fibre reinforced plastic. the names fibreglass reinforced polyester, resinglass, and glass reinforced plastic (grp) are also used. this material is a plastic and is unique in that it is made by the user in situ. it is composed of a series of reinforcements and liquid.
This feature is not available right now. please try again later.. Quality fibreglass structures for boats and bespoke grp moulds to specification. fibreglass, also know as grp is the ideal material for use in the marine (boating, yachts, submersible) sector across a whole range of applications.. Fibreglass boats from plywood plans there are many, many options available to build a boat from plywood plans. if you want to build a small fiberglass boat as an amateur, the choices are much more limited..
