Good points. I know nothing about boron (or any materials other than kevlar and fg) so couldn't say. I store one of my boats at a local rowing club so have talked with the various rowers about materials and boron has come up as one the things that rowing oar shafts are getting made out of. I read an article about the technological advances being made in artificial diamonds. Maybe we can get a boat or paddle in some sort of diamond/epoxy layup! That'd be one helluva exotic material. -Patrick (owner of several non-exotic fiberglass boats) On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:34:43 -0400, Michael Daly wrote [SNIP] > > We need things that are stiff and strong on several scales. For > example, paddle shafts have to have good flex characteristics over > their lengths and also be stiff and strong enough to not crush if > sat on. High strength fibres provide the former but not so much the > latter. What we really need is relatively bulky, light materials > that are strong. This would allow us to make kayak hulls with high > local stiffness (no buckling or oil-canning) and high overall > strength too. *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Oct 10 2003 - 11:35:30 PDT
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