I'm convinced that I'll wear a hole in the bottom of my Prijon Taifun long before the plastic gets brittle enough to crack. When I'm not paddling the Taifun it hangs from the ceiling in my garage, protected from sunlight. After a year and a half of intensive use and another year and a half of light use, the bottom of the Taifun looks like someone roughed it up with a scraper and then tried to smooth out the grooves and scratches with sandpaper. In practical terms, deterioration caused by u-v light is a minor problem for me. Bob -------------------------------------------------- Robert C. Perkins, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Research and Planning Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC 28311 910-630-7037 rperkins_at_methodist.edu *************************************************************************** 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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