:" . . . You'll have the only paper boat in the neighborhood --
: maybe the only one in the state! "

: Not true about the only boat in this country. I, once see a rolling shell
: built with thin cross braced wooden frame and skin from brown kraft paper
: coated with varnish. Don't know the make or model.
: If this has been done before, your method is very likely workable.

Thanks for making that point.

Paper canoes were made commercially around the turn of the century (umm 19th to 20th centuries, that is), and I would not be too surprised if there were rowing shells being made from paper. A kevlar hulled shell LOOKS a lot like it is made from varnished paper, but of course it isn't.

They are rare enough, though, that one per neighborhood is still a bet I think I'd win. And if there are 50 paper boats out there, I'm sure they are not equally distributed among the 50 states

PGJ