Timeline for Boat materials and fiberglass
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| Jul 15 at 20:38 | comment | added | user28763 | (Or, you know, really, really good pumps, tight seams, and not letting the deck leak.) | |
| Jul 15 at 20:30 | comment | added | user28763 | We dug into the same refs then. I note that the "modern" laker design (large pilot house in the back, able to hold more tonnage than earlier designs, easier to fill with cargo, etc.) came pretty late. The earlier designs might not have been that hard to get into drydock. Many of the ports in question are not ice free all year long, so maybe there were regular refits/repairs then. Maybe a trip to one of the museums is in order. | |
| Jul 15 at 20:24 | comment | added | Chris H | I wasn't sure on my reading (mainly Wikipedia). Some were definitely steel, some definitely wood (including a couple of examples with long histories), but the vast majority had no readily available information on their construction - and dated from in between my wooden and steel examples | |
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| Jul 15 at 17:38 | comment | added | user28763 | @ChrisH the internet tells me that the age of large lakers really only begins around 1869 with steel hulls replacing the few large wood only lakers by 1880s. I suppose previously most cargo ships were smaller and easier to dry-dock. Not to mention that being a laker is dangerous! Many wrecks and fires because of dangerous waters, weather, and cargo. But steel or copper plating over wood was common in the interim. | |
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| Jul 15 at 15:54 | comment | added | user28763 | @ChrisH I thought of that too. We don't have a lot of examples of earlier wooden boat trade vessels from the Great Lakes (which tells us something) and the golden age of Great Lakes cargo trade was definitely well into the steel construction era. But I have no doubt that major refits and dry-dock maintenance was part of some of the major port cities. Some of these port cities now have maritime museums... | |
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| Jul 15 at 15:48 | comment | added | Chris H | That all makes me wonder about the earlier large craft on the Great Lakes and major rivers; some were certainly wooden and it wouldn't have been easy or profitable to get them out of the water and dry | |
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| Jul 15 at 15:33 | history | answered | user28763 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |