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Re: Anyone build from a Pygmy kit?
By:lee
Date: 10/12/1999, 10:52 am
In Response To: Re: Anyone build from a Pygmy kit? (Don Lueder)

Hi don, looks like you're having too much fun, when I made a coho i glassed the underside of the deck with 4oz glass then cut bias strips of 4oz to lay at the seams instead of 9oz tape. I figure that a minimum of epoxy is used to seal the underside of the deck so a few oz of 4oz glass won't really use much more epoxy, with 4oz cloth strips cut on the bias on top of the seam there will be 8oz of cloth at the seam so that will be just as strong as tape at the seam. There is less of a stress riser with 8oz blending to 4oz than 9oz tape to plywood. Is this obsession or what? The main "rational" reason for glassing under the deck is the elbow of that 200# friend placed in between unreinforced sections of the back deck as that person climbs on the back deck. tangents,,,,on the coaming I built up the surface of the top coaming spacer at the butt, so that the two coaming halves could meet as a curve instead of a sharp peak.

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Anyone build from a Pygmy kit?
Sue -- 10/11/1999, 3:54 pm
Re: Anyone build from a Pygmy kit?
dave -- 10/12/1999, 11:34 am
Re: Anyone build from a Pygmy kit?
dave -- 10/12/1999, 12:56 pm
Re: Anyone build from a Pygmy kit?
lee -- 10/12/1999, 6:05 pm
Re: ?
lee -- 10/12/1999, 11:47 am
Re: Anyone build from a Pygmy kit?
lee -- 10/12/1999, 1:14 am
Re: HC/MC
lee -- 10/12/1999, 10:34 am
Re: HC and MC
Mike Hanks -- 10/12/1999, 1:39 am
Re: Anyone build from a Pygmy kit?
Al Freeman -- 10/11/1999, 8:33 pm
Re: Anyone build from a Pygmy kit?
Mike Hanks -- 10/11/1999, 8:42 pm
Re: Anyone build from a Pygmy kit?
Al Freeman -- 10/11/1999, 8:46 pm
Re: Anyone build from a Pygmy kit?
Mike Hanks -- 10/11/1999, 8:18 pm
Re: AT 14?
lee -- 10/12/1999, 12:51 am
Re: AT 14?
Charles Cooper -- 10/12/1999, 10:27 pm
Re: AT 14?
Larry C. -- 10/12/1999, 5:25 pm
Re: AT 14?
lee -- 10/12/1999, 9:48 pm
Re: AT 14?
Larry C. -- 10/12/1999, 10:07 pm
Re: AT 14?
lee -- 10/12/1999, 10:57 pm
Shorter Arctic Tern? I want skinnier...
Dean Trexel -- 10/13/1999, 8:19 pm
Re: AT 14?
Larry C. -- 10/13/1999, 12:17 pm
Re: AT 14?
Mike Hanks -- 10/12/1999, 1:02 am
Re: AT 14?
Sue -- 10/13/1999, 8:33 pm
Re: Anyone build from a Pygmy kit?
Don Lueder -- 10/11/1999, 6:55 pm
Re: Anyone build from a Pygmy kit?
lee -- 10/12/1999, 10:52 am
Re: Anyone build from a Pygmy kit?
Don Lueder -- 10/13/1999, 12:23 am
Re: Anyone build from a Pygmy kit?
Jim -- 10/11/1999, 6:47 pm
Re: Anyone build from a Pygmy kit?
David Bryson -- 10/11/1999, 5:13 pm
Re: CLC & Pygmy Combined
Jerry Brown -- 10/12/1999, 2:50 pm
Re: CLC & Pygmy Combined
tom -- 10/12/1999, 11:06 pm