Thread: GIS - Using Stitch and Glue

Having built a pirogue in S&G and the Goat per the instructions I will say going to S&G for a Goat would be a step backwards. It COULD be made as strong but would be more labor intensive and would consume much more epoxy and 'glass. You would likely get the shape only approximately right; adjusting all those ties gets tedious and sooner or later one tends to say "that's close enough."

I suspect the beveling of the chines might be seen as frightfully difficult but it isn't. I would much rather fiddle with chine bevels than all that tie-fiddling and filleting that go along with S&G.

If someone really knew stitch and glue well and could resolve all the problems then I would probably support the idea.

There are some aesthetic issues as well though. Looking at the back of the stem, the side arms and all the timber of that transom really makes the boat - and provides quite a bit of the structural oomph too.

So if you have the side arms in timber I think the framing across the bottom of the bulkheads is needed to make the bulkheads work visually too - the side arms just by themselves would look strange.

So very quickly by making a series of aesthetic decisions you end up pretty well where the boat always was.



I don't think there is any problem achieving the panel to panel strength using stitch and glue. Just follow the normal fillet sizing rules which give an equivalent strength. There would be no need to make the bottom thicker.

MIK

gasp, sigh, gasp.....cough, gasp....catching my breath after seeing the title....




..........I'm OK, really.

Clint