swoody126 wrote:Tom, the total TB III boat is just going on 2 years old butt she is still holding in there
she was delivered to the museum livery just before that little wind storm(Harvey) hit and she weathered that storm
8 boats(4 in 2017 and 6 in 2018) were built using it for framing and those have been in the hands of teen agers since w/ no known issues reported
Wolfgang, we have started using screws like these
https://www.screw-products.com/bronze-s ... erior-use/
w/ our youth boatbuilding camps w/ no reported issues
their advertisements read well and we decided to try them
so far even in saltwater use we've had no reported issues
both of you please understand we turned these projects over to kids so their care and treatment is not expected to be on the level of an adult who invested hundreds of hours and huge chunks of hard earned change creating environments they expect to sleep dry in for many years ;-)
That's good news, thank you SW.
We may not treat our teardrop as some teenagers might treat a boat, but we don't want to treat it like a fine piece of china either!
Tom