hi all, out of lurk mode for this one some years ago i build a 14 foot "cheap canoe" from free plans by bateau http://www.bateau2.com/free/cheapcanoe.htm i can't really imagine anything easier or lighter to build from 2 sheets of exterior 6mm 4x8 ply though the plans are for a 14 foot boat it would be pretty easy to simply stretch it a bit to the full 16foot of the 2 8 foot sheets in fact bateau also have plans for that but charge a little for them unless you buy your frp kit through them, (at least last time i looked) it is recommended that epoxy be used but as i was impatient and epoxy is almost immpossible to find here in japan i built mine with polyester i now have epoxy and am waiting for the "poly-ann" to fall appart but she shows no signs of doing so a few pics at before and after this one http://groups.msn.com/sakuraeason/photos1.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=76 eric e dragged my old plastic kayak out from under 2metres of snow at the side of out mountain cabin the other day and was horrified to see that the hull had been pushed in on the side just fore and aft of the cockpit by the weight of the snow, looked like i would need full rudder to correct the banana bow luckily after a few hours in a middling sun they both popped out ok, gotta love the abuse that a plastic kayak can take *************************************************************************** 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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