Back to the Future.....

Sometimes you need to go backwards to go forwards and so it is for design, there's always a new idea to follow of a new material to test but new things are best tested one step at a time. Originally the frames were made in epoxy with XPS and carbon fibre or 4/6/10 oz glass. But that build technique is slow and inexact due to the variations within the foam and glass. Better to find something already manufactured to a high standard that can be easily and affordably sourced. I thought I'd give ply a try with this mat. But plys not right. It has nice flex and will do the job but its heavy and sensitive to moisture. 5 pontoons, 4 I-beams, 2.5 inch thick, nothing tricky with the hull shape. What I need is a totally consistent product like a plastic, but even 3mm plastic gets heavy as you add it to the other components... Something plastic but mega light, some sort of engineering sheet that's internally stable. Something I can use for the frames as well as for internal hull springers, battens and my flexible I-beams (Tensairity) prototypes. Then I found architectural corflute. Light, uniform, flexible, uv stable, recyclable. Time to test it for suitability.