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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin for Yost Kayak
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 6/20/2011, 2:28 pm
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Skin for Yost Kayak (Kudzu/Jeff Horton)

: Always been curious about canvas but heard 3 years in freshwater
: was about all the life you would get out of one. If I lived in
: the salt I would have tried canvas a long time ago.

If it's dried out well between uses canvas works just fine. I've used canvas covered canoes for lots of years in fresh water without problems, the paint fills it easier than it does on any synthetic. It is getting somewhat hard to find though. It isn't as tough as the synthetics.

Bill H.

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john raley -- 6/19/2011, 8:24 am
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Paul Montgomery -- 6/19/2011, 9:09 am
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john raley -- 6/19/2011, 9:52 am
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Paul Montgomery -- 6/19/2011, 10:19 am
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Mike Bielski -- 6/19/2011, 10:25 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/19/2011, 10:26 am
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john raley -- 6/19/2011, 11:50 am
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Kudzu/Jeff Horton -- 6/19/2011, 12:06 pm
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Matthias -- 6/22/2011, 9:34 am
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Outlaw -- 6/19/2011, 12:59 pm
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Kudzu/Jeff Horton -- 6/19/2011, 4:18 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/20/2011, 2:28 pm
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john raley -- 6/19/2011, 9:30 pm
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Dave Gentry -- 6/19/2011, 11:19 pm
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john raley -- 6/20/2011, 7:36 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/20/2011, 2:30 pm