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Links for Ferrocement boats

http://www.ferrocement.net/The home (?) of Ferrocement technology
http://www.mahina.com/article.htmlChoosing your boat technologies
http://home.att.net/~seagypsy/history.htmlThe earliest record ( by the authors claim ) of a ferrocement boat
http://www.gate99.nl:80/Recreation/Boating/Boatbuilding/This has links to other boat building resources on the web and inparticular a ferro-boat building link. Last time I tried it the ferro link was down though.
http://www.bygogsejl.cjb.net/This is another Hartley 43 Fijian . Wow!
http://euler.sfasu.edu/HomeBuilders/Another boatbuilder webring.

Ferro Book References

This one seems to sum up the history of ferrocement fairly neatly :

In the 1840s, Joseph Louis Lambot of France began to put metal reinforcing inside concrete. The Chinese had long used cement in combination with bamboo-rod reinforcing for building boats. The use of ferrocement as a boat-building material was demonstrated by the Italian engineer and architect Pier Luigi Nervi in 1945, when his firm built the 150-metric ton motor sailer Irene. The hull was only 35 mm thick, and was reinforced with three layers of 6-mm (one-quarter inch) rods. Four layers of mesh were used on each side of the rods. The hull weighed five percent less than a comparable wooden hull, and the price (at that time) was 40 percent less. The Irene proved to be a seaworthy vessel, with very little maintenance, and survived two serious accidents that required only simple repairs.

Extracted from : UNDERSTANDING FERROCEMENT CONSTRUCTION By J.P. Hartog, publ.VOLUNTEERS IN TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE 1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 710, Arlington, Virginia 22209 USA

Stanley Abercrombie's book; Ferrocement; Building with Cement, Sand and Wire Mesh

National Academy of Sciences (Feb 1973). < Title unknown > It is an older book, done when there was still an interest in ferrocement by the governments, both local and other. Many of the pictures used in Abercrombie's book (1977) probably came from the NAS book (1973). I kind of hesitates to call the NAS book more than a booklet, for it is kind of small, around 6" x 9", and only has 69 pages in English. The Library of Congress Catalog Number is 73-4027, and the National Technical Information Service order number (NTIS Accession No.) is PB 220-825.

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