: I have plans for a stitch and glue decked canoe and I am thinking about the
: fiberglass layup. The core is 4mm plywood and the plans call for 6oz glass
: skins. I am interested in a more durable "expedition lite"
: layup, possibly incorporating some s-glass or kevlar. What would the
: experts here recommend? Thanks for your replies!

Oh yeah, if you can avoid working with Kevlar, do, it's expensive and a royal pain in the butt to work with. Costly too, can't even cut it with regular sissors and can't cut anything else with the special expensive sissors you bought for this stuff. It fuzzes when sanded and it's darned near impossible to tell when you've wet it out, doesn't change appearance at all when it's wet. All in all it's alot of extra expense for not much gain.

Bill H.