[PUP] $100 per barrel oil

[Ron Rogers]

For a properly insulated, single skin aluminum boat, please see Dashew's 
foam-insulated boats. Seahorse and many others are producing steel boats 
that are also insulated with foam. Neither has an inner skin.

A carvel-planked wooden hull encapsulated in fiberglass has strength and 
provides insulation. How it compares to a similar aluminum hull with 
appropriate scantlings - I do not know. I did notice, however, that the red 
cedar you were using in the supplied photos was flat-sawn and had small, 
tiny knots (STK.) That is not what I am accustomed to seeing in the type of 
construction. Usually, such hulls are made of quarter-sawn cedar using the 
strip-plank method.

The price of the boat is low, if its quality is high. As Patrick said, his 
full displacement trawler gets the same or better gph numbers on a single 
engine. So your vessel is fuel-efficient, but not amazingly so. The 
prototype appears to have a conventional bow to which I assume a bulb will 
be added. This will place your firm in a position to test the vessel with 
and without a bulb. That test should be most informative for us all. 
Finally, one of the photos leaves the impression that there is a single 
propeller aperture. Is that just the angle from which the photo was taken?

Ron Rogers