Matt Broze offered some observations about my suggestion that perhaps Brit boats are often laid up by hand because of the rough shorelines they must often confront, saying, among other things: > All kidding aside, I don't think you will find may experts who would claim > that hand lay-ups are pound for pound tougher than vacuum-bagging. [snip] > There is nothing about vacuum-bagging that means the laminate can not be > made thicker and way tougher if one is willing to carry some extra weight. Good points. I guess what I meant was that the way some of the British boats are built -- with heavy layups -- may reflect their perceived need for a tough boat. At least it seems to me I've heard that said. But it seems to me you're correct in saying that the tough boat could be built either way - it's a matter of the content of the layup, not the method. I wonder if the cost of the tooling-up may be a problem for some of the British builders. . . ? Have NDK made any noise about switching to vacuum bagging? Mark L *************************************************************************** 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 Mon May 15 2000 - 06:53:47 PDT
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