It has been a long wait, but the marine ply finally arrived today from Denman Marine in Tasmania. Andrew Denman is a professional boat builder in a little town called Kettering in the south of Tasmania on the D'Entrecasteux Channel. He became disenchanted with the marine ply offerings generally available in Australia, so decided to import the highly regarded Joubert Gaboon (also known as Okoume) ply from France himself and also supply us amateurs. Check out his website to learn more about Joubert Okoume marine ply: http://www.denmanmarine.com.au/id67.html
I too was not happy with the generally inferior quality of marine ply locally available, so I was prepared to wait for the good stuff.
The six sheets of 6mm 5-ply were sandwiched between two sheets of sacrificial ply, and were wrapped in thick white plastic. Packaging was excellent and the edges and corners were protected with special heavy duty cardboard angle packing. The whole lot was supported by a framework made of 4x2 pine and strapped up with steel strapping. 10/10 Andrew, thanks! :)
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This is lovely stuff. I'm very happy with it.
Joubert Okoume is an excellent and the finest quality marine plywood for building a superb and magnificent sailing boat. It is simply much strong and of wonderful quality..
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