: We have a winner, Live in the North West corner of Calgary. The drift on my
: front walk this morning was at 5 ft, in the back yard (no drift) it is up
: to my knees. As for the other pictures... thanks, rub it in ;-) Warm
: Weather, and even a Sea to go with the sea kayaks... must be very nice.

: I was just going to go down a put the Carbon filled epoxy on the bottom of
: the yak. I'm not sure if it will really help for abrasion resistance, I've
: hear some anicdotal (sp?) stories from others that it does. Others seem to
: think it makes the surface more slippery. I'm not sure I suscribe to that
: theory, I think it makes it harder (or does nothing). Making it harder,
: and more resilient makes sense to me, kinda like adding gravel to cement
: to make concrete (I really wish I could spell). Where the carbon is the
: equivelent to the gravel.

: Simiilar to the clear eyelets the previous poster indicated they would break
: when made from epoxy alone. but were 'hammer proof' when glass cuttings
: were added (or somthing else was added).

: Like a resent poster, I've very intersted in others findings of adding Carbon
: to epoxy. With some indication of how much was added. I'm told two table
: spoons to three West system pumps is the optimum ratio.

: Oh by the way it stoped snowing around noon today, and it is melting fast. I
: wonder if the small creeks are running high again... maybe I can take the
: canoe out....

: have a good day

: Myrl

Hi Myrl, I applied a mix of epoxy/silica/graphite to the bottom of one of my canoes. I'm still waiting for thaw out to give it a try. I got the info from Tom Angelakis' web site. See link below.