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   Ron_Budgell | Jun 18, 2000 12:05am | #2

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   Gerry, can you check that link, please?
   Call up the boatbuilders at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. They built the big play boat by the museum that's always swarming with kids. (I doubt there's any glue in it.)

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   Guest_ | Jun 18, 2000 08:26am | #3

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   A group of us volunteers are planning a new playground with a "boat" as the centrepiece. What we intend to build is essentially the skeleton of a wooden boat (see the link). Does anyone have any opinions on how to make the curved ribs? In the example in the photo they've cut the curves out of 2x12's and pieced them together as needed to get the desired length. What adhesive should we use with C.C.A. treated wood?

   http://www.gdlewis.ednet.ns.ca/playgrnd.html

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   Guest_ | Jun 17, 2000 12:47am | #1

   *I haven't had to laminate c.c.a, but for anything exterior the only things I would trust are resorcinol or epoxy, the traditional boatbuilding adhesives. Maybe polyurethane in light duty applications, but I've been disappointed with it, and it isn't cheap.Sydney Ship Supply has both.

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   Guest_ | Jun 18, 2000 08:26am | #4

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   Built an arched top fence, with laminated pressure treated pine(2X). Four pieces laminated per arch. Used EXCEL polyurathane glue. Over 6 years ago in Louisiana with 100 degree temps and weekly rain with drops the size of Rhode Island

   Good Luck

   David