G'day

Hello all.

Just thought I would introduce myself. I'm new to woodworking, so I cannot profess to have any areas of expertise. My main interest is boatbuilding, my wife and I are part the way through building our 12.2 metre cruising catamaran in Townsville, it is a full composite cat, foam core and glass.

As such I started out as a "modern" composites follower, believing that organic material had no place on our boat. Since starting upon this journey I have learnt a lot, and not least is that wood is not just to be used as a convenient material to build temporary forms and finish benchtops with.

Wooden Boat magazine has opened my eyes to the beauty and versatility of wood, so much so that I am now somewhat a convert. Having said that I am aware of equal snobbery on both sides of the timber and composites divide, and I happily reside somewhere in between.

I have come here to hopefully avail myself of the years of knowledge that the members of the forum willingly share, and who knows, I may be able to help some poor soul afflicted with boatbuilderitis myself.

Many thanks in advance.

Craig Hastie

Welcome Craig, I'm certain that should you face problems with your boat building there will be some positive response here. As you probably have noted there is a very active boat building section on the board - maybe you found the board searching for answers.
Do take care though, any admiration of working with wood could lead to some form of "....... ist" or "........ology".

soth

G'day Craigh and welcome to heaven.:2tsup::2tsup::2tsup:

You will find all you want here and then some.

Welcome Craig. God to have you as a member.