Ralph is too kind. My handmade skin works, but will win no beauty awards! With respect to Ralph's comments about a single skin material, I don't like that approach for two reasons. First, I like a lightweight deck - I used Sumbrella on mine. It breaths better than a hull material and also probably saves some weight. I know that my double Klepper (not an Aerius II - mine precedes that version!) weighs in at around 55-60 pounds. This is due to my lighter weight skin. The second reason why I like a two part skin is that it just looks better! I love the red deck and black hull on a folding double - it just looks pretty! But Ralph (as always!) is right that a single material skin would be easier to construct. - Scott Ives Diaz wrote: >I saw Scott's work last September and it was extremely well done. > >Maybe I am look at things a bit simply but I wonder why people who are >attempting to make a replacement skin follow the format that the boats >originally have, i.e. a separate deck and hull with a seam all the way >around connecting the two. Why not just make the replacement skin of >one material and wrap it up over the top of the boat? ... *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Aug 02 1999 - 08:01:07 PDT
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