I sailed Hobie 16s for many years but stopped when my kids were born... now they are teenagers I find myself drawn back to the sea. Just designed and built a 21ft stitch and glue outrigger canoe to exercise with but have my eyes on an F16.
Looking at the Vipers and Blades that are in the club here, I want to try to design and build an F16 of my own design.
The materials I can easily get here in Singapore are clear NZ pine, meranti and meranti marine plywood ( thinnest 3.6mm ), divinycell PVC foam , epoxy resin, carbon fibre cloth ( 200g/sq m or 250 g/sq m ), glass cloth and kevlar and carbon tow. What would be the best option without having access to a female mold.?
I was thinking over male mold frames either 1) 6mm pine strip covered with carbon fibre 200g/sqm 2) meranti marine plywood sides with pine strip bottom and fibreglass ( lowest cost option ) 3) 6mm divinycell cut into strips for planking and carbon fibre 250gm/sqm
4) Hot wire carve blue EPS foam into a boat shape and cover with carbon fibre cloth