{"id":1711,"date":"2015-01-04T16:50:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T20:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2015-01-04T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T20:50:20","slug":"experimenting-with-an-old-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/experimenting-with-an-old-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimenting with an old idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who are familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsystem.com\/ss\/assets\/HowTo-Publications\/GougeonBook%20061205.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Gougeon Brothers on Boat Construction<\/a> (link leads to a free digital version of the book) may have read the chapter on a type of boat building called; &#8220;compounded plywood construction&#8221; also known as &#8220;tortured&#8221; plywood. It is the method used to create the famed Tornado catamaran hulls. Russell has recently been exploring this method. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptwatercraft.com\/Begining%20Tortured%20Plywood%201-6.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click HERE <\/a>to see a\u00a0 6 page pdf as just a taste of what he has learned so far.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the Gougeon Brothers, the current issue of Woodenboat Magazine has a feature article about Meade Gougeon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tornadosm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1729 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tornadosm-1024x878.jpg\" alt=\"Tornado plana\" width=\"640\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tornadosm-1024x878.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tornadosm-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Tornadosm.jpg 1157w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who are familiar with The Gougeon Brothers on Boat Construction (link leads to a free digital version of the book) may have read the chapter on a type of boat building called; &#8220;compounded plywood construction&#8221; also known as &#8220;tortured&#8221; plywood. It is the method used to create the famed Tornado catamaran hulls. Russell has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kit-options"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}