: regular sissors won't dent it, it's very expensive and it's hard to tell when
: it's wet with resin, so easy to get too much resin and actually
: have less strength rather than more.

Hmm! I must have lucked out with my dollar store scissors, Bill. I used them to cut the Kevlar fairly easily. One buck'll do ya with a little luck. As for wetting out, I had no problems. Since I have 6-oz glass on the outside, strength was never an issue unless you are banging the hull on hard northern ice shelves but that wasn't the Kevlar that gave way, that was the glass. I am positive that the Kevlar absorbed more epoxy so more weight was added than if I used a lighter weave. I put the Kevlar in the cockpit more to hold the cockpit "pieces" together then next time I accidently do something horribly stupid that causes it to want to disintegrate and also to minimize the wear and tear around the footpegs. Two layers of 6-oz glass just doesn't cut it when ya go over a class 6 rapid.

Robert N Pruden