The only times I've seen a problem a few times. It was when the customer was either a racer training in the kayak daily and pumping a lot with thier legs or someone who paddles a lot and wears Nike Aquasocks as their kayaking footgear. The Aquasocks had a plastic heal counter that wear on the heal of the shoe would expose and then sand grains would get imbedded in the plastic and act like sandpaper against the fiberglass hull. I'd check the area if you are doing a lot of paddling to see if your heals are wearing the fiberglass much. If they are, put some sacrificial material between your heals and the hull material. Since we only sold a few plastic kayaks during our 27 years of selling kayaks I don't know heal wear was ever a problem with plastic kayaks. I recall Kevlar fuzzing due to heal wear but the fuzz then seemed to protect the hull from further wear. *************************************************************************** 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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