{"id":968,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=968"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:05:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:05:22","slug":"ferro-cement-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/ferro-cement-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferro Cement Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p>Steve, I have a chance to pick up a 53&#8242; Ferro cement sail boat. It needs to be finished out with masts, paint etc. Do you have any input in the Ferro cement design. It was built in Alaska, nice lines and quality hard ware, new Volvo engine, all oak inside. I can not see any rust leaking through the cement, it is in a boat yard and has been there for 10 years. It has not sailed. Please give some input if possible. Cheers, Spike <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Hi Spike: Tough question. If properly built and if you do not make mistakes with the boat&#8211;both big &quot;ifs&quot; ferrocement can be OK. However, it does not have the impact resistance of FRP, or metal (or even wood) and if you put the boat ashore, or in some cases even have a moderate grounding you have a high risk of major damage. A second issue is insurance. It is sometimes difficult to get insurance on ferrocement boats.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the above, ferro boats typically sell at very low prices&#8211;which makes them attractive. You just have to be realistic about the risk factors inherent in the material. Steve <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve, I have a chance to pick up a 53&#8242; Ferro cement sail boat. It needs to be finished out <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/ferro-cement-construction\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yacht-construction-forum","category-tech-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35980,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/35980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}