Also, you can skin with the typical synthetic cloth and then just coat with epoxy to save a step (add a flex agent to the epoxy if possible, I think some epoxies are available with a flexible hardener). Might want to test the skin and epoxy coating before committing to it though. Many seem to say that a skin must be flexible enough to be folded over and creased without cracking, peeling, etc., but I'm not sure that its a necessity. If your kayak skin gets folded over and creased in use, you have more important things to worry about! Most epoxies won't do this; heck, most polyurethanes won't either but they are used with success. Certainly, a bit of flexiblity in the coating is needed, especially with nylon, since the skin will deflect from water pressure as well as when you hit something while paddling.

: btw, if you want it bullet proof you can do what I did last year on my Yost
: Sea Ranger, covered with 4 oz. dacron then covered that with 4 oz. glass
: set in epoxy. It's still flexible and is amazingly tough. It's also twice
: as much work.

: Bill H.