Hi all, Kia Ora, Back again after an absence of travel and play, and thanks Jackie for your help in this matter. Now to the point. The fastest sail boats like the Whitbread round the world yacht race,keep the boats as light as possible and as strong as possible seeing they travel through the roughest of oceans in the world. This has been made possible by moderne materials,e.g. kevlar and strong flexable resins. I was talking to a kayak builder from Cape Cod who builds Baidarkas around 29 lbw and even 25 lbw ,he lost one of his vehicle driving at speed and not a scratch on the boat.. Here in NZ we prefer (but can't always afford) the lightweight kevlar boats around the 18 to 22 kg..And I find that after a long trip on my own even that gets heavy to lift on the car. Being light and not strong,don't have to go together. Eddie. City of Sails. NZ. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
What do you guys do about the cracks in the gel-coat? Robert > Eddie van den Hurk <vdh_at_paradise.net.nz> wrote > Thu, 13 Jan 200<PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net>0 19:24:14 +1300 > > The fastest sail boats like the Whitbread round the world yacht race,keep > the boats as light as possible and as strong as possible seeing they travel > through the roughest of oceans in the world. > This has been made possible by moderne materials,e.g. kevlar and strong > flexable resins. > I was talking to a kayak builder from Cape Cod who builds Baidarkas > around 29 lbw and even 25 lbw ,he lost one of his vehicle driving at speed > and not a scratch on the boat.. > Here in NZ we prefer (but can't always afford) the lightweight kevlar boats > around the 18 to 22 kg..And I find that after a long trip on my own even > that gets heavy to lift on the car. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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