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Re: Strip: Cloth weight------WebKitFormBoundary9+v
By:Fred
Date: 4/17/2009, 7:40 am

Strength with 3 oz should be adequate. Doubling on the inside under the cockpit sounds like a good idea to me to. If you are concerned about abrasion at the bottom of the bow, you might also want to double up there too - just 3 or 4 inches wide. Pygmy calls for an abrasion tape strip the whole length of their kayaks.

: The boat is a single seat kayak of my own design, 5.05m by .55m, and has no
: flat sections anywhere aside from a little V well behind the cockpit.
: Outside of that, it is all compound curves.

: I weigh a bit under 80 kg dry.

: It seems that 6 oz cloth is pretty commonly used, but that seems pretty
: heavy/overkill to me?

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Cloth weight
Simeon -- 4/16/2009, 7:42 pm
Re: Strip: Cloth weight------WebKitFormBoundary9+v
fred Gasper------WebKitFormBoundaryN716A2k+1Hk5yF0 -- 4/16/2009, 10:26 pm
Re: Strip: Cloth weight------WebKitFormBoundary9+v
Simeon -- 4/16/2009, 11:10 pm
Re: Strip: Cloth weight------WebKitFormBoundary9+v
Fred -- 4/17/2009, 7:40 am
Glass weight
Allan -- 4/16/2009, 11:27 pm