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PVC frame for folding boat?
By:Wayne
Date: 8/21/2001, 3:44 pm

Okay, be gentle with me here. I continue to contemplate how a first-timer could build a folding kayak. The image of a klepper frame found on ebay suggest a rather straightforward (?) aluminum frame. Has anyone ever attempted this with PVC pipe? PVC is cheap, flexible, strong, and so I wonder about its candidacy for frame building. Also, it would be very easy to repair.

That most dangerous of phrases has begun to reverberate in my noggin: "how hard could it be?"

ad delirium contiuum,
Wayne

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PVC frame for folding boat?
Wayne -- 8/21/2001, 3:44 pm
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Steph Mareches -- 9/2/2001, 2:28 pm
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KenB -- 8/22/2001, 5:10 pm
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Wayne -- 8/22/2001, 7:56 pm
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Warwick Carter -- 8/24/2001, 2:51 am
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Warwick Carter -- 8/22/2001, 6:19 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 8/21/2001, 7:04 pm
go for it
Paul G. Jacobson -- 8/21/2001, 5:29 pm