Scot, I'd suggest asking your questions on the User's Forum hosted on Folbot's website: http://www.folbot.com/yak.htm Although the company can't be of much help with regard to the older style boats (combination of ownership change and hurricane that destroyed old records/parts/plans), there is a pretty active group of owners of the older boats and they have lots of experience at restoring them. Sounds as if the deck is stretched pretty tight, so sewing the tears might make that problem even worse. I'd probably try fixing each tear with a patch of material that's sewn and/or glued on top. Can't help with the tight gunwale problem - my old ('67) Folbot is the kit-built (non-folding) model, and my newer ('93) one is the current style that assembles very easily. Scot Hume wrote: > > With all the recent discussion on folding boats, I > have a couple questions about refurbishing a Folbot. > The boat is an early 70s vintage that my folks have > had stored in their garage for a long time. *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Sep 16 2002 - 16:50:19 PDT
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