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S&G: Adjusting plans for large paddlers
By:Rob W
Date: 3/19/2009, 11:54 am

I'm about to start building a kayak for a rather large guy. I figure around four hundred pounds. I was planning on increasing the sheer of a Mill Creek 13, and wanted to know if someone has a way to calculate how much I would need to add to give it another 100 pounds of capacity.

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S&G: Adjusting plans for large paddlers
Rob W -- 3/19/2009, 11:54 am
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Christian Grejsen -- 3/20/2009, 3:21 pm
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Charlie -- 3/20/2009, 11:42 am
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Dave Houser -- 3/19/2009, 7:50 pm
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Doug S -- 3/20/2009, 10:30 am
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Rob W -- 3/19/2009, 9:38 pm
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Dave Houser -- 3/20/2009, 12:22 am
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Bill Hamm -- 3/19/2009, 2:08 pm