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In materials, BS 1088 is the British Standard specification for marine plywood that applies to plywood produced with untreated tropical hardwood veneers that have a set level of resistance to fungal attack. The plies are bonded with Weather Boil Proof (WBP) glue. [1]
Marine plywood can be graded as being compliant with BS 1088, which is a British Standard for marine plywood and IS:710 is Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for marine grade plywood. There are few international standards for grading marine plywood and most of the standards are voluntary.
Middle Pier, St Abbs, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK: Country: ... St Abbs Lifeboat is an independent marine-rescue ... construction using GRP protected marine ply under ...
The Seagull is widely regarded in the UK sailing community as a 'plywood classic', [1] - a boat which many young families learned to build and then learned to sail in. After the Seagull and Seamew Ian Proctor later went on to design similar sized boats such as the Nimrod, Eclipse , Prelude, and the Pirate.
BS 1088 for marine plywood; BS 1192 for Construction Drawing Practice. Part 5 (BS1192-5:1998) concerns Guide for structuring and exchange of CAD data. BS 1361 for cartridge fuses for a.c. circuits in domestic and similar premises; BS 1362 for cartridge fuses for BS 1363 power plugs; BS 1363 for mains power plugs and sockets
In Australia and New Zealand a higher-grade marine ply than BS1088 is AS2272. It requires both faces to be "A" quality, with even-thickness plies. The most common plywood used for this grade is plantation-grown Hoop Pine which is fine grained, very smooth, moderately light (at 570 kg/m 3 or 36 lb/cu ft it is the same weight as Meranti ply and ...
Alf Parrott slipper launches were initially built in marine ply, then later in fibreglass, 20 feet (6.1 m) in length, with Stuart Turner single-cylinder petrol engines. Peter Freebody and Co. in Hurley, Berkshire still make slipper launches from scratch using traditional methods and materials although often with electric propulsion.
The Heron Dinghy is a dinghy designed by Jack Holt of the United Kingdom as the Yachting World Cartopper (YW Cartopper). The Heron dinghy was designed to be built by a home handyman out of marine ply over a timber frame, but can now also be constructed from marine ply using a stitch and glue technique or from fibreglass.