Tina, While I never followed through on buying a new skin for my 30+ year old folbot (I gave it to another paddlewiser instead) the quote I got from Whalecraft was around $1,000, and my thought was that at that price I would be much better off buying the entire boat new. In my case I needed to make some frame repairs as well, but if everything is in great shape it may be worthwhile. good luck - Saul -----Original Message----- From: owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net [mailto:owner-paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net]On Behalf Of Tina Scholnick Sent: Saturday, July 31, 1999 9:05 AM To: PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subject: [Paddlewise] New skins for old Folbots? While on the subject of Folbots, was wondering if anyone had information about purchasing a new hypalon skin for a 40 year old garage sale Folbot Super, (the sign read: Folds into 2 bags, $150 / firm). The original naugahyde skin, which has logged many miles, still works fine, but I imagine a new skin would increase the hull speed and improve the stiffness factor. I understand a company called WhaleCraft might sell these. Has anyone purchased one of these? Did it improve performance? Tina >Older Folbots used to come up like some one doing a bad pushup >with a quarter of the boat still on the ground when say the stern was >already about 18 inches off the ground. > >End Ralph's Ruminations on Folding Kayaks 101 > >ralph ------------------------------------------------------------- ___________ / OOOOOOO- / I / -OOOOOOO- / I /___________/ / I___________I / Have you hugged your bento today? Check out the BENTO BUGGY website at: http://www.pcez.com/BentoBuggy ------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Jul 31 1999 - 15:46:50 PDT
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