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Angie Richard

Angie Richard
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https://www.voyagevirage.com/floating-stories-lab
Angie is a multidisciplinary storyteller, researcher and academic, exploring how creative practitioners can drive science and envision regenerative futures. Angie is self-building a Wharram Narai Mk IV wooden catamaran with her family, creating a Floating Stories Lab - a regenerative sailboat studio - to depart Europe on a circumnavigation, merging science, art, research, and storytelling to discover how humans can thrive on a flourishing planet. For the latest updates, visit www.voyagevirage.com or subscribe to the Floating Stories Lab Substack newsletter.
"The epoxy primer was applied quickly by Jacob and Hanneke, one rolls it on the other strokes it out. We applied two coats and afterwards wet-and-dry sanded them." (Info/Photo Wharram Designs)
Boat Maintenance

Glues and Resins: Can Boatbuilding Be Regenerative?

This Feinspiel Vendia boat is made from their proprietary Nordic pine plywood planks. The planks are made from sliced veneer so it looks like solid wood, but is actually ply. (Photo courtesy of Vendia)
Boat Maintenance

Wooden Boat Revival: Can Boatbuilding Be Regenerative?

Examples of glass filler (microspheres) and glass material (cut fibers and two fabrics) for plastics reinforcement: glass microspheres (or glass beads); diameter: about 300 µm, specific gravity: 2.5. Mineral filler mainly used to increase the stiffness of a thermoset resin and to make road safety markings; 5 mm length chopped strands of fiberglass used to reinforce thermoset resins; fibrous reinforcements for thermoset resins: two glass fabrics with different area density; fiber orientation: 0 and 90° (most common): weave pattern: taffeta (down left, area density: 550 g/m2), and 2x2 twill (down right, area density: 280 g/m2). Credit: WikiCommons/CC BY-SA 3.0
DIY Projects

A Brief Modern History of Fiberglass

DIY Projects

Why Choose the Wharram Design?

Old, decomposing fiberglass boats in Hennebont, next to Lorient, in the Morbihan region of Bretagne, France. (Photo/ Angie Richard)
Boat Maintenance

What Do You Do With Old Fiberglass Boats?

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