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KBBS Archive 00,000
Re: My Chesapeake 17 weighs 56 pounds!!
Posted By: Drew Lebauer In Response To: Re: My Chesapeake 17 weighs 56 pounds!! (Mike Scarborough)
Date: Thursday, 30 July 1998, at 9:13 a.m.
This may be so, but it doesn't explain why Pygmy boats come in at about the expected weight and CLC boats come in heavier, according to reports.
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> Excess epoxy is the most likely cause of a boat coming in overweight.
> Two places to look are 1) size of fillets between hull panels. It's
> easy to make these too big (and too heavy) and 2) thickness of clearcoats.
> I just finished a week-long couse at Wooden Boat School building wood
> strip kayaks with instructor Ted Moores. The biggest thing I learned
> is how to control epoxy clearcoat thickness with a squeegee. I think
> he covers his technique in his book CanoeCraft.
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