[DL] >I also think a wooden boat should be >fairly stiff, as stated before. I can't buy into Alex's "lively" kayak >philosophy. Semantics - I mean livley as in bouncing on the sea, not the hull flexing. >The other question I was asked relates to the procedure for actually laying >up the fiberglass on the wood, and what cloth to use - 4 or 6 ounce. I don't glass the surface of the wood, just the joins. Saves all that extra weight of glass and resin plus all the extra work. A 3mm hull is stiffer than my glass boat (which isn't all that light) and most I build are 4 mm ply. Alex . . Alex (Sandy) Ferguson Chemistry Department University of Canterbury New Zealand *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Jan 16 2000 - 16:53:39 PST
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