Ken writes:I have been using cloth tape to protect the sharply rounded keel in the bow and stern of my yak from getting dinged up. I was considering some automotive protective stripping (held on with that supposedly removable 3M cement), or perhaps some inner tube or PVC repair patch material. Even a few layers of Aquaseal. Anyone have a proven solution? Years ago I re-covered a vinyl-skinned Folbot. To reinforce areas over the chines and keelson, I sent to the factory for a quart of vinyl-patch -- the stuff you see advertised to fix seat covers. Being vinyl itself, it stuck to the vinyl skin and was flexible. Four or five coats made a coating sufficiently thick to take scuffs without digging in to the colored vinyl underneath. I don't know if vinyl will stick to plastic, glass, and kevlar, but you might want to buy a tube -- I think it's called VIP -- at the hardware store and find out. Rick *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Dec 11 1999 - 11:06:02 PST
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