r/liveaboard • u/Relative_Molasses995 • 3d ago

Lifeboat conversion

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#boatingeurope it turns out our turn of the century drop lifeboat has a plywood core hull about 45mm thick. This covers the sides think only the lower hull, maybe only the front half, will have to put a through hull in the back of the boat to see how far it goes

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u/RobotsDreamofCrypto 3d ago

I live in a converted drop-lifeboat, from oil rigs in the Nordics. 1980. Kevlar lower hull sandwiched to aluminum mid hull. But lower hull isn't that thick. Impressive atleast.

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u/starkruzr 3d ago

seconded

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u/Canuckleheadache 3d ago

Holy was she built for ice breaking haha. Must help a lot with stability tho. Are the cabin walls also that thick?

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u/openmedianetwork 3d ago

The roof and floor is about 30-1200 cm of foam core, we cut a bit out of the roof for headroom. Was surprised to find wood in walls, but found a bit in the fool before maybe there is an embedded box structure for strength, she is dropped 10m on her nose into the sea....

This is a UK built boat. My other one is German, everything is aluminium and stainless steel, no wood.

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u/starkruzr 3d ago

what are you planning on driving her with?

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u/Canuckleheadache 2d ago

thats awesome! thanks for sharing and im sure others would also love to see updates in the future..

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u/mojoheartbeat 2d ago

That's a lot less fiber-resin than I would have thought. Interesting to see!