Is it possible he over-sanded the glass and cut into the glass fibers, making a weak spot? Or did the pressure of the failing strip itself cause the glass failure? No good answers, but some more good questions!!

Shawn

> One strip in my friends kayak has cracked or split or what ever you call
> it, and torned a hole in the glasfiber. This happend while it was stored,
> not by external force. He used only one layer of glasfiber. Would more
> layers help? Fritjof