Dan Hagen wrote: > What are the potential drawbacks of a carbon-kevlar weave? > Has anyone subjected a kayak made with this material to long-term abuse? Not a kayak, but... In the latest Banff Festival of Mountain Films, (the "Best of" is currently touring) there's a film about four Yugoslav adventurers who cross the Arctic from Russia to Canada through the North Pole. They started with ten sleds made of carbon- Kevlar weave. They ended with three. A couple or three were lost through open leads in the ice. The others disintegrated from the pounding of being hauled across the ice by the men on skis. Other than for the material chosen, they were pretty much standard gear pulks. They hauled the gear for 12-16 hours a day, then stopped to repair them, eat and sleep. The men were 51, 47, 42 and 31 years of age - so there's hope for some of us (the 51 year old got most of the film time and was tough as nails). Watch for the films and catch them if you can. You'll never look at carbon-Kevlar weave the same way again <G>. Mike *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Feb 08 2000 - 19:00:02 PST
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