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Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 11/26/2009, 12:32 am
In Response To: Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak (PatrickC)

: Yeah i don't have any real intentions of building a boat from a
: mold, I just want to learn how.
: i did take existing designs as a base and made my own though.
: Shaping the forms to where i wanted
: them took 6 months of occasional shaping and reshaping and changing
: my mind and reshaping again til it gelled
: into something i think i will like.

There's an old British book about building a fiberglass "canoe" (their term for kayak) that's a fair primer. I've got a copy stuck away somewhere. Both Sweet Composites and Soller Composites (available online) have some basic technical documents that may help some.

I'll have to think about this one, maybe Sam can help?

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak *PIC*
Reg Lake -- 11/24/2009, 11:52 pm
Launching *PIC*
Reg Lake -- 12/21/2009, 12:25 am
Wind?
John Caldeira -- 12/27/2009, 6:16 pm
Re: Wind?
Reg Lake -- 12/28/2009, 7:45 pm
Re: Launching
Bill Hamm -- 12/27/2009, 8:52 am
Re: Launching *PIC*
Reg Lake -- 12/27/2009, 11:55 am
Re: Launching
Bill Hamm -- 12/27/2009, 12:08 pm
Re: Launching *PIC*
Reg Lake -- 12/27/2009, 12:31 pm
Re: Launching *PIC*
Bill Hamm -- 12/28/2009, 9:50 am
Re: Launching
Deano -- 12/21/2009, 3:07 pm
Re: Launching
Reg Lake -- 12/21/2009, 3:53 pm
Re: Launching
PatrickC -- 12/21/2009, 7:09 pm
Re: Launching
Reg Lake -- 12/22/2009, 11:45 am
Re: Launching *PIC*
PatrickC -- 12/22/2009, 8:51 pm
Re: Launching
Glen Smith -- 12/21/2009, 12:37 pm
Re: Launching
Reg Lake -- 12/21/2009, 3:47 pm
Re: Launching
Glen Smith -- 12/21/2009, 5:54 pm
Re: Launching
Bill Hamm -- 12/27/2009, 8:57 am
Re: Launching
johne -- 12/21/2009, 12:17 pm
Re: Launching
Reg Lake -- 12/21/2009, 3:30 pm
Re: Launching Big Banana
LeeG -- 12/21/2009, 10:45 am
Re: Launching Big Banana
Reg Lake -- 12/21/2009, 3:28 pm
Re: skeel?
LeeG -- 12/22/2009, 5:34 pm
Re: skeel? *PIC*
Reg Lake -- 12/22/2009, 5:50 pm
Re: skeel?
LeeG -- 12/23/2009, 1:07 pm
Re: skeel?
LeeG -- 12/22/2009, 7:04 pm
Re: skeel?
Reg Lake -- 12/23/2009, 12:13 pm
Re: skeel?
johne -- 12/23/2009, 12:44 pm
Re: Launching Big Banana
LeeG -- 12/21/2009, 11:05 am
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
Bill Hamm -- 11/25/2009, 6:06 pm
Mold making photos added to the slideshow. *PIC*
Reg Lake -- 11/25/2009, 11:06 pm
Re: Mold making photos added to the slideshow.
Bill Hamm -- 11/26/2009, 12:35 am
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
Sam McFadden -- 11/25/2009, 10:37 am
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
Reg Lake -- 11/25/2009, 12:02 pm
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
LeeG -- 11/27/2009, 9:30 pm
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
Reg Lake -- 11/28/2009, 1:32 am
HiPer-tex info
Reg Lake -- 11/28/2009, 2:02 am
Re: HiPer-tex info
LeeG -- 11/28/2009, 4:50 am
Re: HiPer-tex info
Reg Lake -- 11/30/2009, 10:50 pm
Re: HiPer-tex info
LeeG -- 12/4/2009, 11:35 am
Re: HiPer-tex info
Reg Lake -- 12/5/2009, 11:30 am
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
Sam McFadden -- 11/25/2009, 12:39 pm
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
Reg Lake -- 11/25/2009, 10:10 pm
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
PatrickC -- 11/25/2009, 10:19 am
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
Bill Hamm -- 11/25/2009, 6:10 pm
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
PatrickC -- 11/25/2009, 9:10 pm
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
Bill Hamm -- 11/26/2009, 12:32 am
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
Reg Lake -- 11/25/2009, 11:55 am
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
Bill Hamm -- 11/25/2009, 7:18 am
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
John D. -- 11/25/2009, 1:02 am
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
Reg Lake -- 11/25/2009, 2:48 am
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak
Dave Gentry -- 11/25/2009, 12:22 am
Re: Announce: Progress on fiberglass kayak *PIC*
Reg Lake -- 11/25/2009, 2:30 am