Dave wrote, " I have a vintage 1993 Eddyline Wind Dancer, which has a too-light layup on the back deck, aft of the rear hatch. It's strong enough, but just not rigid enough." Am having trouble trying to imagine how you're getting aft of the aft hatch in a paddlefloat recovery, but one thing that worked for me on my Pintail when I started developing stress cracks aft of the after bulkhead was to add a second bulkhead of two inch closed cell foam about 12 inches further aft, just forward of the aft hatch. It stabilized the deck enough to keep it from cracking further --- getting in and out of a Pintail requires sitting on the after deck and sliding in straight-kneed --- and seems to have done the job without introducing alternative sources of stress. Might be something to think about; too many more layers of six ounce glass and the resin to hold it together on the back deck and you'll have a squirt sea kayak! Or a permanent endo boat, anyway. Jack Martin *************************************************************************** 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 Feb 20 2000 - 20:28:07 PST
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