: Hi Bill-

: You are right- I have seen boats that used aircraft goop that were still
: watertight even though the cotton canvas had rotted away on the inside. By
: most reports they're not incredibly abrasion resistant, though. There are
: a couple of recent posts about it on the Qajaq USA web site if anyone
: wants to do a search.

: There's a link to the company I know of who carries the aircraft stuff below.

: m

Hi Mike,

I think with my catamaran prototype I'm again going to try my composite skin that I first tried on my Tom Yost Sea Ranger. This time I'm going a little lighter on the fabric. Going to use 1.8 oz. dacron and cover again with a single ply of 4 oz. glass/epoxy. The Sea Ranger's worked well and the cover is nearly as rugged conventional fiberglass construction only a heck of alot lighter.

I'm still working on perfecting that skin, this time I think I'll vacuum bag the glass over the dacron, hopefully will smooth out the finish as well as bonding it easier to the underlying fabric.

Bill H.