The geodesic boats are pretty strong, but they are not that puncture resistant. You can pound on the skin with no effect, but push a pencil right through. Nick At 9:39 AM -0400 5/15/02, Kirk Olsen wrote: >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 > -- Nick Schade Guillemot Kayaks 824 Thompson St Glastonbury, CT 06033 (860) 659-8847 *************************************************************************** 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 Thu May 16 2002 - 05:39:58 PDT
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