Abstract:
A construction of small fishing boat using FRP is one of the preferred options recently by
boat owners in Malaysia. With an appropriate construction techniques, this FRP product
could give a reliable characteristics, such as less time of building process, minimum
problems with leakage and attack of marine growths on hull good strength and safety as
well as longer hull life. Furthermore, it offers a worth construction cost if the mass
production is taking place. Nevertheless, there have a variety of lamination schedule being
applied in real practice during construction process, such as number of laminations, types
of material’s component and resin mixture ratio. This variances lead to a different specific
result especially weight and cost of the hull itself. This project will collect the possible FRP
boat construction techniques practiced by local boat builder by considering all the possible
variances of lamination schedule. At the end, the weight and cost of the hull can will be
determined individually and the comparative studied will be made. This statistical results
is expected to become a good database for reference especially in estimating the weight
and cost of the hull. A quick estimation efficiently can be made during the early stage of
boat building for any future order.
