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Re: Material: is 2 layers of 8oz glass enough?
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 9/20/2008, 12:41 am
In Response To: Re: Material: is 2 layers of 8oz glass enough? (Brian Schulz)

: This is a surf boat that won't see much, if any use on the river. I surf in a
: full surfers wetsuit and am prepared for a long cold swim. I just put on
: my third layer and am out of fiberglass. So that gives me 24oz of the
: worst fiberglass job you've ever seen. Squirt boats seem to easy to pin
: when running rivers but with all the kick I've glassed into the bow that
: is less of an issue. Mostly I won't take it on the river because I don't
: want to break it. This one cost me 650, but would cost over 2k to replace
: it. I have some 6oz laying arond somewhere but man do I want to paint it
: and go surfing!

Should be ok for the surf as is :)

Btw, I've got a very early squirt boat myself, just use it on mild whitewater, I'm certainly not good enough to try squirt boating, but once I got the boat I learned all about it :)

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Material: is 2 layers of 8oz glass enough?
Brian Schulz -- 9/19/2008, 12:10 pm
Re: Material: is 2 layers of 8oz glass enough?
Bill Hamm -- 9/19/2008, 5:05 pm
Re: Material: is 2 layers of 8oz glass enough?
Brian Schulz -- 9/19/2008, 6:11 pm
Re: Material: is 2 layers of 8oz glass enough?
Bill Hamm -- 9/20/2008, 12:41 am
Re: Material: is 2 layers of 8oz glass enough?
Reg Lake -- 9/19/2008, 1:22 pm