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Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 9/22/2011, 2:01 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas (Eric Mattison)

: I've never seen a kayak skinned with it, but I've seen a much
: larger boat in action in the San Juans. A guy built the largest
: rowboat I've ever seen and had paddled it with his wife and all
: their camping gear to this remote beach I was camped on. He'd
: had the thing for years. Seemed very light and strong.

: Eric M.

Cotton canvas tends to have a longer life in saltwater too, less chance of rot.

Bill H.

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Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Kevin McAtee -- 9/20/2011, 9:39 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Mike Savage -- 9/20/2011, 4:41 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas *PIC*
Kevin McAtee -- 9/20/2011, 4:58 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/21/2011, 1:23 am
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Kevin McAtee -- 9/21/2011, 2:13 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/21/2011, 2:20 am
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Mike Savage -- 9/21/2011, 8:46 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/22/2011, 1:59 am
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shawn mitchell -- 9/23/2011, 3:48 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/23/2011, 6:41 am
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Kevin McAtee -- 9/23/2011, 5:42 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/23/2011, 9:11 pm
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Kevin McAtee -- 9/26/2011, 5:05 pm
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Kevin McAtee -- 9/26/2011, 5:17 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas *PIC*
Kevin McAtee -- 9/26/2011, 11:37 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Bill Hamm -- 9/27/2011, 2:07 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Mike Savage -- 9/21/2011, 8:29 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Eric Mattison -- 9/21/2011, 9:52 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: cotton duck canvas
Bill Hamm -- 9/22/2011, 2:01 am