At 07:49 PM 5/14/2002 -0700, Dave Kruger wrote: >Check out the yaks and canoes on page two: >http://www.boat-links.com/DepoeBay/02/BoatFest-1.html > >Not sure what a "Geodesic Aerotlite canoe" is, but it looks light as a >feather. Platt Monfort of Wiscasset Maine has been selling Geodesic Airolite boat plans ( http://www.geodesicairoliteboats.com ) for a long time. He's got something like 22 different designs, from an 8 pound wee lassie style canoe up through 16 foot row boats. The boats are very interesting, they are built with construction similar to a fabric airplane wing (my understanding of the construction that is). They are built with a wooden frame that is tensioned with kevlar strands. For an exterior they use a stretched dacron fabric. For adhering it to the frame Monfort sells a special tape that is used in place of lashing, glue, or fasteners. At the Maine Boatbuilding show, a few years ago, Monfort's booth had a section of dacron stretched over a 2 by 4 wooden frame and were having people jump on the fabric to see just how strong it is. Someone in my area has an airolight rowboat, it's cool to watch him one hand carry it from the car to the water. There are quite a few people using polyester(dacron) for skin/frame kayaks. There's a good writeup on how to use it for a skin frame kayak at http://www.imaginelan.com/aleut/polyester_skinning.html kirk *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed May 15 2002 - 06:39:34 PDT
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