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do you think stock foam(closed cells) like used for underground building insulation (mostly grey, green or blue) would be suitable? I have seen the ship-models used for tanktesting also uses this (while not encountering any side forces so).


In the next links you will fined useful information

http://www.boatdesign.net/articles/foam-core/
http://www.diabgroup.com
http://www.gurit.com/index_en.html
http://www.alcanairex.com/alcan/acsites.nsf/pages_acai_en/index.htm


Erez Ben Shoham http://www.cat-sail.co.il