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Re: Seeking: Plastic for a Yost folder
By:Paul Montgomery
Date: 10/6/2008, 9:06 am
In Response To: Seeking: Plastic for a Yost folder (John Faas)

Sounds about right, price wise. Well, not RIGHT, but that's the price. When I was making my first Yost-style kayak I was using my own measurements and so I used regular exterior 1/2" plywood as test frames. Because I rarely folded the kayak I wound up using those frames for almost 2 seasons!

I probably will not make any more folders (I have 3) but if I did my #1 choice would be to have aluminum tube cross frames with some kind of plastic clips for the attachments. That would be extremely hard to do I think, but it would be a nice boat.

PaulMon

Messages In This Thread

Seeking: Plastic for a Yost folder
John Faas -- 10/5/2008, 10:20 pm
Re: Seeking: Plastic for a Yost folder *LINK*
Aaron H -- 10/6/2008, 10:54 am
Re: Seeking: Plastic for a Yost folder
joan roco -- 10/6/2008, 4:46 pm
Re: Seeking: Plastic for a Yost folder
Paul Montgomery -- 10/6/2008, 9:06 am
Re: Seeking: Plastic for a Yost folder
Reg Lake -- 10/6/2008, 1:11 am
Re: Seeking: Plastic for a Yost folder
Dave Gentry -- 10/5/2008, 11:24 pm