hi Kirk, The lite skin/frame boats that you talk of relay interest me. i haven't paid much attention to skin boats... until now that i read the wts! Are there some web sites that would be good to check out to learn more? or where's a good source of info? thanks, bye bye bliven =========== >From Kirk: That weight isn't that unusual for a skin/frame boat. My 18'7" baidarka weighs 34 pounds and I used a fairly heavy nylon skin with hypallon coating. I intend to reskin it with polyester fabric and aliphatic urethane coating and the weight will probably get down around 28 pounds. A friend who builds several different skin frame boats builds his greenland style boats at 24 pounds and a sweet greenland/baidarka cross thats about 28 pounds. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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