On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Gerald Foodman wrote: > WITHOUT CONSIDERING COST AT ALL, what is the best construction if you want > the lightest and strongest boat? Based on a property sheet I saw a few years ago I would like a 3 layer vacuum bagged spectra hull. Spectra is another synthetic fabric. According to the article it's brutal to work with as it is lighter than water and it floats on the resin instead of being easily wetted out. It's been a couple of years, I've seen a couple of canoe manufacturers (Novacraft?) making spectra boats. The original article had a picture of an olympic athlete's 7 pound whitewater race boat being held by the athletes young daughter. kirk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jun 29 1998 - 13:10:33 PDT
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