I was under the impression that S&G kayaks were generally lighter than strip ones. Possibly because I remember folks who have build hybrids say their boat would have been lighter if they hadn't stripped the deck. But one of those "new" boat builder web pages from last week talked about strippers being lighter than S&G, so now I'm wondering.

I know it depends on lots of factors, but can you generalize that one is lighter than another? If you build the same boat using comparable materials (say 4mm ply and 3/16 strips; same cloth and resin), wouldn't they be the same weight except for the difference in the type of wood and how much resin it would suck up?

Patsy