Joe Pylka wrote: Seems to me it would take a fair degree of craft skill.... No skill at all needed, I've been repairing skis for years. You just melt the p-stick with a hot iron and let it drip into the gouge and fill it up. Then go over the lumped up melted p-stick with a scraper/sander and then wax the ski. I have no idea if the stuff will stick to a plastic kayak though. I would expect that a gouge deep enough to requiring filling would also affect performance. Most gouges would also have ridges along the gouge edge where the displaced material moved during the plastic deformation that caused the gouge. Shouldn't these should be sanded smooth prior to using the p-stick? I have a partially used p-stick, black in color, that I would mail to someone, if they contact me off list with an address. Didn't I read on this list sometime in the past that the cumulative abrasion on the bottom of plastic kayaks would, over time, increase resistance/reduce speed?? John Blackburn *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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