Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's the one situation in which you can actually say you went up the creek in a concrete canoe! :-) Regards, Dick On Sep 17, 2009, at 9:00 PM, Sonny Carter wrote: > It was first used in WW II to save steel, but revived by the Mother > Earth > Catalog Gang. Google it up, fascinating. > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at comcast.net > >wrote: > >> Pretty boat. Never did understand the point of ferrocement >> construction. >> Maybe it was really cheap. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Dick >> >> >> >> >> On Sep 17, 2009, at 3:27 PM, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote: >> >> In the 1700s ferry sloops were used to transfer cargo from shore to >> the 90 >>> foot long sailing sloops that travelled between New York City and >>> Albany. >>> The Soujourner Truth is a replica made to compliment the replica >>> Hudson >>> River sloop "Clearwater" that Peter Seger's Clean Hudson foundation >>> financed. The replica Soujourner Truth is made of ferrocement, >>> concrete laid >>> on a chicken wire armature. It is very strong but very heavy. If >>> it is >>> punctured it will sink like a stone. Unfortunately that's what >>> happened to >>> this one a couple of years ago. >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Soujourner+Truth.jpg.html >>> >>> Larry Z >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://www.sonc.com > http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > (+31.754164,-093.099080) > > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information