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Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak

By:PatrickC
Date: 7/2/2008, 9:39 am

In Response To: Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak (Chris Ostlind)

it occurs to me that aluminum could easily be used as long as you implement a frame first.

wood stringers like a skin boat with long slots to fit panels of pre bent aluminum sheets into.

a little sand bagging to shape curvy areas and whatever other method to make shallow angle creases.

but to keep weight down those sheets would have to be thin and easy to dent...

Announce: all aluminum kayak
steve chatman -- 6/29/2008, 9:18 pm

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Charlie -- 6/30/2008, 11:52 am

Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak
Chris Ostlind -- 6/30/2008, 3:51 pm

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Chris Ostlind -- 6/30/2008, 6:06 pm

Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak
PatrickC -- 7/2/2008, 9:39 am

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Bill Hamm -- 7/3/2008, 1:22 am

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bromasi -- 6/30/2008, 10:12 pm

Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak
steve chatman -- 7/1/2008, 12:12 am

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Carl Delo -- 7/2/2008, 12:21 am

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mike allen -- 7/1/2008, 6:14 pm

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Bill Hamm -- 7/2/2008, 1:50 am

Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak
Bill Hamm -- 7/3/2008, 1:20 am

I'd love to see a prototype. *NM*
Robert N Pruden -- 7/1/2008, 3:30 pm

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Pawistik -- 6/30/2008, 12:26 am

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Robert N Pruden -- 7/1/2008, 3:27 pm

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Skiffrace -- 6/30/2008, 7:24 pm

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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 6/30/2008, 2:17 pm

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Robert Robb Livingston -- 7/7/2008, 3:22 am

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Jim Bell -- 7/7/2008, 10:15 pm

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Etienne Muller -- 6/30/2008, 2:05 pm

Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak
Glen Smith -- 6/29/2008, 9:30 pm

Re: Announce: all aluminum kayak
Glen Smith -- 6/29/2008, 9:35 pm

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