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Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 9/1/2009, 12:36 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite (peter b)

: I agree with you 100%. Wood is hard to beat. But I still think that keeping
: an open mind and thinking out of the box is healthy and maybe these new
: materials can be incorporated into these boats in a beneficial way. At one
: time fibre glass was a new material that needed somebody to figure out how
: to utilize it.

The composite decking (in general, there are lots of suppliers and not all are the same) is lower in most mechanical strengths and much heavier. It does though weather well, which is important on an unfinished deck, not important for a boat as few boat materials are used that don't have a finish (paint etc) applied later on.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite decking
Peter B -- 8/28/2009, 10:40 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
Foster -- 8/30/2009, 3:00 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
Peter B -- 8/31/2009, 7:36 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
Charlie -- 8/31/2009, 10:54 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
peter b -- 8/31/2009, 10:12 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
Bill Hamm -- 9/1/2009, 12:36 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
Paul G. Jacobson -- 8/29/2009, 2:37 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
peter b -- 8/29/2009, 10:31 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
Bill Hamm -- 8/29/2009, 7:09 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
peter b -- 8/29/2009, 8:16 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
Bill Hamm -- 8/30/2009, 9:03 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
Charlie -- 8/28/2009, 4:02 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
peter b -- 8/29/2009, 10:28 am
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Aaron H -- 8/28/2009, 11:59 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite *LINK*
Kudzu -- 8/28/2009, 5:25 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
Bill Hamm -- 8/29/2009, 7:07 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
Charlie -- 9/2/2009, 1:47 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
Bill Hamm -- 9/2/2009, 1:52 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
Niven Paine -- 9/2/2009, 4:35 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: biulding kayak using composite
Bill Hamm -- 9/5/2009, 1:36 am