I have been thinking about making panels like Rob is doing, where the foam is left out of part of the panel, so that it bends easily. That looks like an easy way to make the beams, as well as the hulls. My concern is that it seems like the final shape would not be rigid because that bent portion can flex. You can put in bulkheads, but then that force is take by the bulkhead, and not the hull.
It seems like it would be easy to make 90 degree bends using panels like that, then put a quarter section of a foam cylinder in the corner and then glass over it and make the whole structure rigid again. Shaping the curve out of sheet foam seems like a pain, however. I was wondering if anyone knows of a source for rigid foam cylinders in a 1" or 6" radius, that would be great.
- Gardner
Pasadena, MD
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