John Winters wrote: [snip] > >I once watched Darryl Lideigh of Mohawk canoes pound on one of his chopped >fiberglass canoes with a hammer. The boat stood up just fine. Not sure what >that proved. Real life proves more. > My neighbour's rotomolded whitewater kayak was riding on someone else's car when the car was rolled. After the car was righted, and the pillars in the boat were pushed back into place, there were no scratches that he was sure were new. Some time later, with the same boat, he got stuck in a hole. He came out on a rope, and the boat flushed out later: at least one good big new scratch on the boat. But a few years earlier, in a glass boat, he was pinned on another river. Two of us got him out, but it took a while. I have never seen anyone so happy to see his boat break in half. It is for this reason that careful makers of glass whitewater boats made the cockpit region the weakest part of the boat. And what does that prove? Don't know, but here are some possibilities: 1) rotomolded boats are incredibly tough. 2) moving water can break anything 3) stronger need not be better. 4) with age and experience you can amass a stock of irrelevant anecdotes for any occasion. (So _that's_ why we do these things!) Regards Bruce Bruce Winterbon bwinterb_at_magma.ca http://magma.ca:80/~bwinterb The government measures the health of the economy by how fast the rich get richer. *************************************************************************** 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 Mar 15 1999 - 16:11:58 PST
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