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One last important thing
By:jaybabina
Date: 4/26/2016, 4:31 pm
In Response To: Epoxy: Warping (paulteather)

You need to put some struts of wood along the water line area before you crank in the upper (shear) of the hull sides.

The tendency is for the hull to just squeeze from the center line and you will loose initial stability making it a more round hull.
Ideally you would put some forms in the boat to keep it on the money but I understand your forms are probably on a backbone type of set-up.

I knew someone who had the same issue and they just pinched the sides in closer and lost initial stability vs. the original design. (I hope I'm not repeating something already written I did read all of them a few days past.)

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Epoxy: Warping
paulteather -- 4/23/2016, 8:29 am
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TMH -- 4/23/2016, 10:26 am
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paulteather -- 4/23/2016, 11:12 am
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TMH -- 4/23/2016, 2:12 pm
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paulteather -- 4/23/2016, 5:34 pm
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Bob stanley Ten Eyck -- 4/23/2016, 6:50 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 4/23/2016, 7:13 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 4/23/2016, 7:27 pm
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Bob stanley Ten Eyck -- 4/23/2016, 7:57 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 4/23/2016, 8:02 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 4/23/2016, 9:10 pm
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paulteather -- 4/23/2016, 10:21 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 4/23/2016, 11:21 pm
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paulteather -- 4/24/2016, 7:26 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 4/24/2016, 7:11 am
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paulteather -- 4/24/2016, 8:53 am
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 4/24/2016, 9:40 am
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paulteather -- 4/24/2016, 9:57 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 4/25/2016, 8:12 am
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Paul T -- 4/25/2016, 8:26 am
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David Bartnowski -- 4/24/2016, 9:45 am
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paulteather -- 4/24/2016, 10:02 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 4/24/2016, 11:21 am
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Jay Babina -- 4/25/2016, 10:28 am
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Paul T -- 4/26/2016, 8:21 am
One last important thing
jaybabina -- 4/26/2016, 4:31 pm
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Paul T -- 4/26/2016, 6:28 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 4/27/2016, 12:32 pm
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Paul T -- 4/28/2016, 6:42 pm