: How about fast top build with no steam-bent ribs, and no plywood,
: either,
: This design is from Platt Monfort's line of Geodesic Aerolite
: boats. Fast to build and fairly inexpensive. You can order any
: "exotic" materials you might need from their website,
: www.gaboats.com
: The boat pictured below is their Snowshoe 12 which weighs under 15
: pounds and holds about 175 pounds. If your son is larger, there
: are bigger boats on the site.
: PGJ
Monfort's boats are very nice and very light, also fairly fragile. Used in deep water they are fine, don't want to ever drag them on the shore though. I use the same fabric he, well they do ( he's gone) but I add a layer of glass for abrasion resistance. The Dacron has little abrasion resistance used alone. I had a chance many years ago to spend a considerable amount of time talking to Platt when he was first intro'ing these boats, interesting guy.
Bill H.
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- Skin-on-Frame: SOF Canoe Plans
Charles Robinson -- 7/19/2010, 11:11 am- Re: Percy Blandsford
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 7/19/2010, 5:27 pm- Re: SOF Canoe Plans Here is another thoght
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- SOF Canoe Plans
Paul G. Jacobson -- 7/19/2010, 4:24 pm- Re: SOF Canoe Plans
Bill Hamm -- 7/19/2010, 7:09 pm- SOF Canoe *PIC*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 7/19/2010, 4:26 pm - SOF Canoe *PIC*
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 7/19/2010, 2:57 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: SOF Canoe Plans
Dave Gentry -- 7/19/2010, 12:20 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: SOF Canoe Plans
Kudzu -- 7/19/2010, 6:59 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: SOF Canoe Plans
Charles Robinson -- 7/19/2010, 8:36 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: SOF Canoe Plans
Kudzu -- 7/19/2010, 10:08 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/19/2010, 7:03 pm- Re: Skin-on-Frame: SOF Canoe Plans
Charles Robinson -- 7/19/2010, 8:34 pm
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- Re: Percy Blandsford