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Angie is a multidisciplinary storyteller, researcher and academic, exploring how creative practitioners can drive science and envision regenerative futures. Angie is self-building a Wharram Narai Mk IV wooden catamaran with her family, creating a Floating Stories Lab - a regenerative sailboat studio - to depart Europe on a circumnavigation, merging science, art, research, and storytelling to discover how humans can thrive on a flourishing planet. For the latest updates, visit www.voyagevirage.com or subscribe to the Floating Stories Lab Substack newsletter.
Boat Maintenance

YouTube Sailing: Eight Videos Packed with Practical Knowledge

Greenboats laying flax fabric to construct the MB9 monohull, which is entirely constructed from Natural Fibre Composites (NFCs). Photo courtesy of Greenboats.
DIY Projects

Considering Fiber-Reinforced Composites for Sheathing

"The epoxy primer was applied quickly by Jacob and Hanneke, one rolls it on the other strokes it out. We applied two coats and afterwards wet-and-dry sanded them." (Info/Photo Wharram Designs)
Boat Maintenance

Glues and Resins: Can Boatbuilding Be Regenerative?

This Feinspiel Vendia boat is made from their proprietary Nordic pine plywood planks. The planks are made from sliced veneer so it looks like solid wood, but is actually ply. (Photo courtesy of Vendia)
Boat Maintenance

Wooden Boat Revival: Can Boatbuilding Be Regenerative?

Examples of glass filler (microspheres) and glass material (cut fibers and two fabrics) for plastics reinforcement: glass microspheres (or glass beads); diameter: about 300 µm, specific gravity: 2.5. Mineral filler mainly used to increase the stiffness of a thermoset resin and to make road safety markings; 5 mm length chopped strands of fiberglass used to reinforce thermoset resins; fibrous reinforcements for thermoset resins: two glass fabrics with different area density; fiber orientation: 0 and 90° (most common): weave pattern: taffeta (down left, area density: 550 g/m2), and 2x2 twill (down right, area density: 280 g/m2). Credit: WikiCommons/CC BY-SA 3.0
DIY Projects

A Brief Modern History of Fiberglass

DIY Projects

Why Choose the Wharram Design?

Old, decomposing fiberglass boats in Hennebont, next to Lorient, in the Morbihan region of Bretagne, France. (Photo/ Angie Richard)
Boat Maintenance

What Do You Do With Old Fiberglass Boats?

Latest Videos

Carl Alberg’s Family Sailboat for the Ocean - Alberg 37 video from Practical Sailor
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Carl Alberg’s Family Sailboat for the Ocean – Alberg 37

Are you looking for a family sailboat that can cross the ocean and sail the Caribbean in safety and comfort? Carl Alberg designed the...
ASA Certification: Are Sailing Courses Really Worth It? video from Practical Sailor

ASA Certification: Are Sailing Courses Really Worth It?

Lagoon 55 - The Perfect Charter Boat for Your Caribbean Vacation video from Practical Sailor

Lagoon 55 – The Perfect Charter Boat for Your Caribbean Vacation

Bad Bottom Paint Slowing You Down? video from Practical Sailor

Bad Bottom Paint Slowing You Down?

Latest Sailboat Review

New Sailboats

Hunter 45DS Used Boat Review

Hunter Marine unveiled its latest large cruising monohull, the Hunter 45DS, in late 2007. The boat is essentially an upgrade of the 44DS, with twin wheels, a new transom, new styling, and a roomier, reconfigured interior. Hunter has sold 152 hulls since the boats debut, making it a fairly successful endeavor. To increase the Hunter 45DSs interior volume, designer Glenn Henderson opted for relatively high freeboard and additional length. Henderson also matched a nearly elliptical rudder with a smaller keel. The 54-horsepower Yanmar auxiliary engine moved the Hunter through calm water at 8 knots at 3,000 rpm. Testers sailed the 45-footer in flat water and 13.5 knots of wind, making 5.8 knots and were able to tack through 110 degrees. The current base price of the Hunter is $268,990.
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