On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, E. Sullivan wrote: > Kevlar is more susceptible to UV than fiberglass? I keep my skin coat kevlar boats in bags. When I first got my singles canoe I left it uncovered in the parking lot at work for 1 business day. At the end of the day you could see the darkening of the kevlar and lighter bands where the roof rack straps held it down. Using a bag to cover skin coat boats is common in the marathon flatwater canoe racing community. If you do a web search for boat bags you'll find a few sites that cater to covers for the olympic community. I just ordered a lightweight layup canoe this past weekend, I fully intend to buy a bag to keep the canoe covered. That said I've got a 20 year old kevlar racing canoe that spent about 250 days a year, for 15 years, in full sunlight, without a cover. It was used regularly, and enthusiastically. The boat is still watertight, ugly and beat up, but watertight. For those worried about kevlar's fragility, on at least 2 occaisions this canoe collided with a rock, or dam, with enough force to toss the bow paddler over the front into the water. The boat has never leaked. It's had some resin floated over the major gouges but has never gotten any new fabric. kirk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Dec 06 1999 - 11:51:12 PST
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