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Sports/pleasure/commercial boats
 

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Item

Typical Fibre

Typical Resin

Manufacturing

Deck

Aramid/glass

Polyester, epoxy often core material

RIM

Hulls for racing boats

Carbon/glass

Nomex® honeycomb cores

RIM or Autoclave

Hulls pleasure

Glass

PE/VE/Epoxy

Hand

Hulls commercial

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Pressure hull on submersibles

Carbon/glass

PE/Epoxy/PEEK

Filam/Autocl

Propeller shafts

Carbon

Epoxy

Filament

Interior furniture

Glass

PE/VE/Epoxy Nomex® honeycomb cores

VE/Epoxy RIM

Masts

Carbon

Epoxy/PE

FW

Rudders

Carbon

Epoxy/EP

Autoclave

Bulkheads

Glass

VE

Hand

Safety shell cockpit

Carbon/aramid

VE/ Epoxy aramid honeycomb core

RIM/ Autoc

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