Edgewater Boats - Wood Free Construction

[DC20]

Just thought I would share for those compiling a list, this is from the manufacture.
I was asking about construction on a 1999 boat:
did not switch over to all composite until late 2000. The transom that year was composite, but the deck coring and fuel tank cover were made with balsa core.

 

[dingbat]

Re: Edgewater Boats - Wood Free Construction

Composite of what?

Fiberglass and wood is a composite.

 

[sasto]

Re: Edgewater Boats - Wood Free Construction

Composite of what?

Fiberglass and wood is a composite.

Natural wood is not considered a composite. I'm suprised at you dingbat, one of the forum gurus.

I had some fellow boatbuilders work for them several years ago. At that time they were using Nida-Core and some new type of sprayable core. There were many boatbuilders in my area using composites at one time. Where did they all go? We were building a 28footer using composites and vacuume bagging. We went out of business....very expensive to build.

 

[jprice]

Re: Edgewater Boats - Wood Free Construction

I probably shouldn't be butting my nose in here, but...

Natural wood isn't a composite material, but isn't Fiberglass AND Wood considered a composite material?

 

[sasto]

Re: Edgewater Boats - Wood Free Construction

I probably shouldn't be butting my nose in here, but...

Natural wood isn't a composite material, but isn't Fiberglass AND Wood considered a composite material?

Not amongst boatbuilders around here.....but you may have a point, jprice.

I can think of some other builders using "composite material" only.

Off the top of my head I think Everglades, Regulator, Hydra Sports all do. Almost all Sportfish built around here use composite core.