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Sure, I've used lots of it. Most all ocean going boats build ports out of the stuff. Polycarbonate. It's expensive, but a coconut has no chance getting through it. My windows in my cabin are all made out of it, which you saw. Earthquake or tweaker proof. You'd not get through those with a sledge hammer. Building a set of storm shutters out of lexan is a sensible idea.
Actually, bulletproof glass is a composite material, and a little different, if we really want to talk laminates.
Wind is something I know something about. It's worth paying attention to.
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Here's a place to start. My parents ran the disaster relief program here, through MDF.
http://www.kansas.com/static/slides/0505...doaerials/
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Here's another: Any sailors aboard will enjoy the footage of the ship folding up as viewed through the companionway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE_ri8PkihE&feature=related
Shipping green water with a 90 foot deadrise?
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How do you survive that? Time tested tech.
http://sv-macha.blogspot.com/2008/09/mac...oyage.html
My old boat. Life boat design, for those kinds of conditions. You'll note that it's an extreme low profile design. Race boats of today have more deadrise. The cabin top is laminated marine plywood 4 inches thick. The portlights are solid bronze with 1/2 inch tempered glass. The hull has bulkheads on 20 inch centers. The boat weighs 34000 pounds, 14000 of which is ballast and stores. 3 sets of watertight collision bulkheads. 200 gallons a minute worth of pumps. The mast is 3/16's steel pipe at 6.5. The rig is 1/2 IWRC mil spec cable. Brick poophouse, as they say. Built that to go to Antarctica, but I got arthritis, go figure. They young couple that are sailing it are doing a very good job. I'm going to build a steel canoe.
Believe me, you see real wind once, you'll respond accordingly.
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Steven, we promise to keep our coconuts picked
Puna: Our roosters crow first
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4 inches thick? Yee gawds and little fishes! Is the hull just as thick? Ice breaker boat, fer sure!
Why would you want to sail to Antarctica when there are warm places to sail to? Well, there are probably no 100 mph coconuts in Antarctica so I guess that is another way to protect things from 100 mph coconuts. Move to Antarctica!
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Gracious and neighborly of you, Eightfingers, if indeed it turns out we can grow them at 1,200 - 1,300 foot elevations. If so then I'll assist by sharing the recipe for an amazing coconut-based beverage encountered in Indonesia.
Speaking of potential airborne coconut weather, here is an interesting 09JUL2009 news note:
El Nino conditions return to affect weather
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=...1&catnum=0
...which says "In an El Nino year there tend to be more Eastern Pacific hurricanes and fewer Atlantic hurricanes."
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It is not our part to master all the tides of the world but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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