I just spotted that Frank posted another update on his blog a few days ago, as he continues to make more progress than he writes that he's done;-)

Boat is in the water, mast stepped

Yes, I like it! All is looking extremely good, Frank!

Wow, looks great!

Also, you've been so clever to laminate the pre-tube to an already flat laminated grp plate. I wasn't, and had to laminate in a second step upside down...

Very nice! 

Paul

I see that Frank is continuing to make good progress on his SibLing. The keel is on, and the interior is well on the way.

Anonymous wrote:

Hi Frank, I live in NL and if I ever commit to a build project I expect I would wish to use a similar quality of pine ply. Is it possible to detail for us exactly which product you bought, and who supplied it to you? Perhaps the manufacturer has an distributor in NL or I could simply bring it home from your supplier on a large trailer...

Thanks again, Adrian

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Adrian, sorry for the delay. I don't have any more information about the ply. I called the wood dealer and asked for the specific sort of pine. They were really confused about a odd question like that and had no clue. 

So I'm quite certain that it is a generic European industry product which any wood dealer in Germany orders from their next bigger wholesaler and they from 1 or 2 factories, probably in eastern Europe. 

My advice is to find the nearest wood seller to the border and ask them to order "Sperrholz Kiefer AW-100". Also Tony used a very similar if not the same product with a source near Lüneburg, if I remember quite right. You could also ask him for his source, that would be like 400km closer to the Netherlands. He talks about the ply here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzDFmsJA4MM 

For orientation of a rough price range, I paid 17€/qm for 10mm now. In the video Tony says he paid 9€/qm 5 years ago.  

All the best (and keep us updated about your project :) )

Frank