Where can I Get Foam for frp

[chopper]

does anyone know where I could get some foam even if its off cuts.
I have a idea to lighten my old pipedream Kaon I am hoping to strip off the decks and replace them with frp ones to bring the weight down anyone who lives in essex and could help (I have very little idea) would be most welcome and kept suplied with beer and tea lol.
 
regards Paul

[JimC (Guest)]

I doubt that you'll save a significant amount of weight with a reasonably dent resistant foam sandwich layup over 3mm/4mm plywood and it will cost a shed load more...
Loads of suppliers about, http://www.marineware.com/ in Southampton or Matrix Mouldings in Bristol http://www.mcmc-uk.com/index.html for example.

[sam293]

yeah as jim says, its probably more effort than its worth doing it in frp. your not going to take much weight off, even if you do them in carbon, you can probably add a similar performance increase with a lot of practice, a good polish, and a nice set of sails

matrix mouldings are great if you do decide to go with it.

iv done a fare bit of glass, frp and gel work, based in oxford, used to work for ldc (RS) can help for cost of fuel and some nice beer!

sam

[chopper]

advice received with thanks. one of main reasons for starting with deck is side decks are in a bit of a state had several repairs, my thoughts are to reduce size of decks and make as light as possible the pipe dream will only be used for inland opens would be nice to have one thats down to weight think I need to loose 20kg.
Want to view this as a project boat happy to play about with it a bit so any advice on weight loss graciously received spose keel removal would shed a few pounds.
paul