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Testing Epoxy’s Adhesion to White Oak By Bruce Niederer — GBI Technical Advisor People have been building boats using white oak for centuries, sacrificing blood, sweat, and tears to engineer wonderful and enduring vessels of all shapes and sizes. Oak was often used because of its desirable properties and behavior. It is dense, strong, rot-resistant, holds […]
by Bruce Niederer and Bill Bertelsen Gougeon Brothers, Inc. has supported our local tallships—Appledore IV and Appledore V—since they arrived at their downtown Bay City facilities on the Saginaw River. These steel-hulled, gaff-rigged schooners are typical of the type that sailed the Great Lakes and coastal waters right up to the end of the age […]
by Bruce Niederer — GBI Technical Advisor Above: The proa Slingshot was one of the true pioneers of speed, topping out at 40 knots. There are those who believe sailing fast means advanced composites with high-tech fibers, exotic cores, and plenty of cash. Very few think of wood when they think of fast, but before […]
by Bruce Niederer — GBI Technical Advisor Above: I brushed WEST SYSTEM® 105/206 onto both of the upright bass’s repair surfaces and fit the joint together. Just by luck, I was in the right place at the right time to purchase an old upright bass from the local school system for $50 because, sadly, the […]
by Bruce Niederer — GBI Technical Advisor Above: A graph of moisture exclusion effectiveness. I get mad at my computer fairly often these days when it takes more than a few seconds to open a file from an obscure site on the other side of the planet. Who has that kind of time to waste? […]
