Multi-chine plywood hulls allow a round hull shape to be approximated.

Multichine construction allows a plywood hull to more closely approach a round bottom hull.

There was an elemental simplicity to the design; a sharp-prowed plywood hull, shallow but exquisitely shaped.

The aircraft is made from sheet aluminum, aluminum tubing and aircraft fabric, with a plywood hull.

The engines roaring in reverse pulled the torpedo-boat back off the log-boom, her plywood hull crackling and speaking, but she was mortally wounded.

Hard chines are common in plywood hulls, while soft chines are often found on fiberglass hulls.

On a cold Saturday morning, the repair crew was noisily straightening out the van-shaped shuttle's metal skeleton and fitting wood bracings to its new plywood hull.

Kurlamo In 1961 the hull specifications allowed for the construction of lighter plywood hulls, buoyancy tanks and a burmudan rig, becoming what is today the Thorpe class.

The plywood hull is constructed on the jig with longerons forming the hull shape; the longerons are in turn stiffened by two thwarts and the transom piece.

Following some forty years of design development using chined plywood hulls, both Guernsey and Jersey are now importing superior double and single washdeck fibreglass boats from France.

By using composite construction involving the use of fiberglass cloth, epoxy resin, thickeners and fillers it is possible for home builders to produce high quality, light, strong plywood hulls, at very reasonable cost.

A simplified clinker plywood hull was decided on, so that amateur builders with no boatbuilding experience would be able to put together a strong and attractive boat in a short time, and with minimum cost.

Mr Shadbolt, who was 21 when he was given command of one of MGB 81’s sister vessels, says that he was distracted from the thought of being shot through the plywood hull by the power of three 1250 horsepower engines.