Famous skiff designer Chris Morejohn is making a new boat using basalt volcanic rock fiber fabrics. Chris has reported that he first made similar size panels of Fiberglass, Kevlar, Carbon and Basalt fibers to test. Smashing with a hammer each panel was easily destroyed except the Basalt which Chris says the hammer bounced off! Three other boat builders are now in the process … [Read more...]

Basalt fabric used for the tool mold of a carbon fiber yacht's bow. Basalt bi-axial fabric was used to make a tool mold for the nose cone of a very expensive carbon fiber yacht last month. I had been told that basalt was too different from carbon fiber and would have a different expansion and contraction coefficient. It did not! The basalt had no measurable movement at … [Read more...]