On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Doug Lloyd <douglloyd_at_shaw.ca> wrote: > > > Having spent some time with the odd SOF builder, it looks quickly and > cheapely doable, but aCoaster inspired design, in my hands, would need to be > a pretty tough boat to survive more that 20 minutues with me. I'm much > gentler on my wife, though mentally, hmmm, some days...poor woman. > > I don't think I'm as hard on boats as you have been in the past (the thousand-piece-Nordkapp as witness) (boy, just think how easy *that* would be to take on an airliner as carry-on... a bitch to assemble though) but you'd be surprised at how durable an SOF can be. We used 12oz ballistic nylon in our boats because Brian couldn't get the 8oz he usually uses. No big penalty in weight but much tougher. The 2-part poly he uses for the nylon is also pretty rugged. The nice thing about a SOF is that you can make it more durable... laminate *all* the ribs and use more of them and laminate the chine pieces and keel piece. Heck, you can even include aluminum or stainless steel if you have a mind to. Not what one might call "classic" but what the heck. A stripper, even if you have a shop and the time, takes months but you can whang out a pretty decent SOF in weeks (if not days). Plus it's cheaper. And if you break it just re-use the pieces to make another one. I suspect that, once you had all that time and money into a stripper, you'd be pretty reluctant to duplicate the current condition of the Nordy anyway. :P Craig *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Feb 24 2010 - 11:25:22 PST
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