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Strip: Carbon Fiber on the Inside
By:Bryan Hansel
Date: 11/30/2011, 9:57 am

I built a canoe this summer with carbon fiber on the inside. Recently, a wind storm picked it up off the ground where it was stored and bashed it up against a tree. The wind was bad enough that it tossed a couple of sawhorses halfway across the lawn. Where the boat hit the tree, the glass on the outside cracked, which I would have expected. On the inside, the carbon fiber split and fractured. I've never seen this much damage on the inside of a boat from one impact even from times that I landed my wooden kayak on a boomer and needed to do repairs because of that. I'm not sure I'd use carbon fiber on the inside again without covering it with glass.

Thoughts?

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Strip: Carbon Fiber on the Inside
Bryan Hansel -- 11/30/2011, 9:57 am
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Charlie -- 11/30/2011, 10:51 am
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 11/30/2011, 1:23 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 11/30/2011, 3:37 pm
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StephenHJ -- 11/30/2011, 1:37 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 11/30/2011, 3:38 pm
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ScottBaxter -- 11/30/2011, 7:22 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 11/30/2011, 11:22 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 12/1/2011, 1:59 pm
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Brian Nystrom -- 12/1/2011, 6:30 am
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Mike Savage -- 12/1/2011, 1:57 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 12/1/2011, 2:03 pm
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Allan -- 12/1/2011, 4:51 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 12/1/2011, 5:28 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 12/1/2011, 6:55 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 12/2/2011, 3:21 am
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Kirk Briggs -- 12/3/2011, 9:44 am
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 12/9/2011, 2:30 pm