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    The document discusses different types of fiberglass reinforcement materials used in boat building, including chopped-strand mat, woven roving, and lightweight woven roving. Chopped-strand mat has relatively little tensile strength but is used to provide thickness and stiffness when layered with other materials. Woven roving is thicker than cloth but very strong, and is used to build up strength quickly. Better quality boats are usually laminated with alternating layers of mat and woven roving.

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    The document discusses different types of fiberglass reinforcement materials used in boat building, including chopped-strand mat, woven roving, and lightweight woven roving. Chopped-strand mat has relatively little tensile strength but is used to provide thickness and stiffness when layered with other materials. Woven roving is thicker than cloth but very strong, and is used to build up strength quickly. Better quality boats are usually laminated with alternating layers of mat and woven roving.

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    The hull of a fiberglass Jason, fresh from the mold. Chopped-strand mat (2 'A-ounce).

    (From The Fiberglass Boat


    Repair Manual, by Allan Vaitses. International Marine, 1 988)

    Woven roving (18-ounce). (From The Fiberglass Boat Repair


    Manual, by Allan Vaitses. International Marine, 1988)
    required and, sometimes, to give a smooth outer fin-
    ish. Woven roving is a much coarser weave, thicker
    than cloth but also very strong. It is used in the aver-
    age boat to build up strength quickly. Mat is formed
    of chopped glass and has relatively little tensile

    strength. Low-quality FRP boats may be made of an


    all-mat laminate, often with the resin sprayed from

    chopper guns rather than laid up by hand. Better-

    quality craft are usually laminated from alternating

    layers of mat and woven roving. The mat gives thick- • -!•
    ness and stiffness to the laminate and bonds the lay-
    ers of woven roving together.
    This is a very simplified explanation, and there are
    Ughtweight woven roving (8.2-ounce). (From The Fiberglass Boat
    other forms of fiberglass reinforcing, such as Fabmat Repair Manual in- Allan Vaitses. International Marine. 1988)

    (a combination of mat and woven roving) and high-


    strength reinforcing materials such as unidirectional

    fibers, E-glass, and S-glass. The average FRP boat,


    however, is built of mat and woven roving, and this is

    particularly true of the diousands of craft that have

    been imported from the Far East. Ocean racers, both


    power and sail, often incorporate some extremely
    costly and high-strength materials, such as kevlar or
    carbon fiber, into the laminate at high-stress areas.
    FRP hulls are weak in fiexural strength and need
    to be stiffened by adequate framing. In production

    UNDERSTANDING BOAT DESIGN

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