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Re: avoiding torturing plywood
By:Dean Trexel
Date: 8/30/1999, 6:49 pm
In Response To: Re: avoiding torturing plywood (Mike Scarborough)

Attached is a photo from Pygmy's website of their Queen Charlotte which uses a flat deck but creates leg and foot room by cutting a v-shaped notch in the deck and stitching it together. But given the thousands of people who have built cambered-decked boats, I wouldn't shy away from attempting another one. Maybe we can help you figure out what happend with your first one. Maybe you did a saturation coat on the underside of the deck and didn't rough it up with sandpaper before attaching it to the shear clamps, so the epoxy didn't get a good bite? Did you try for a cleaner look by not nailing the deck on and relied on straps and tape to hold until the epoxy cured? Maybe just a simple mis-mixing of epoxy? Just making some guesses... Dean

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Steve -- 8/30/1999, 4:50 pm
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Berkeley C. -- 8/31/1999, 3:58 pm
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John -- 8/31/1999, 9:26 am
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lee -- 8/30/1999, 8:44 pm
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Grant Goltz - Squeedunk Kayaks -- 8/30/1999, 6:43 pm
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Barry -- 8/31/1999, 5:29 pm
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Grant Goltz - Squeedunk Kayaks -- 9/1/1999, 1:22 pm
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Hans Friedel -- 8/31/1999, 4:58 pm
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Grant Goltz - Squeedunk Kayaks -- 9/1/1999, 1:18 pm
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Hans Friedel -- 9/1/1999, 4:40 pm
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Grant Goltz - Squeedunk Kayaks -- 9/1/1999, 10:58 pm
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Mike Scarborough -- 8/30/1999, 5:31 pm
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Dean Trexel -- 8/30/1999, 6:49 pm