Stainless Steel Monohull 39

[Stumble]

I think if I was in any way interested in a metal hull that wasn't steel or aluminium instead of stainless I would go with titanium. Sure it would be more expensive, but it would also last forever.

It would require a carbon mast instead of aluminium, and titanium fittings, but at this point what's a few more bucks.


It was done at least once, and the University of New Orleans is doing a lot of research into friction welding titanium plate for the USN. So it may actually be getting close to practical.

[Cheechako]

Yeah, Ti would be wonderful.... however at ... what? $20 a lb for Ti, a 20000 lb boat (35 ft?) would cost $400k in hull/deck material alone. Figure maybe 5 times that for building cost... so that 35 footer is likely about 2.0- 2.5 million or so....