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Re: Make Your Own Drytop
By:Dean Trexel
Date: 11/5/1999, 6:33 pm
In Response To: Make Your Own Drytop (Shawn Baker)

Hey, we don't have any less respect for you due to your sewing expertise. (couldn't have much less...just kidding;-)

Can you give us an idea of the cost of materials?

Your post showed up at a rather coincidental time -- I just shelled out $310 today for a Kokatat Gore-Tex dry top. I can justify it in my own mind given that my boats cost half as much as a cheap plastic model.

Keep posting the pics -- we love 'em!

Dean

> 4th in the series from the madman turned loose with a digital camera:

> Do-it-yourself Drytops!

> Disclaimer: Not recommended for sewing newbies. Sewing is not easy to just
> pick up and do. If you've never sewed before, don't pick out a drytop as
> your first project. Building a kayak is easier than sewing. If you can
> sew, seal all seams very well, or the drytop will just be a fancy paddling
> jacket with latex cuffs.

> I'm not boasting about my sewing skills; my mother was a home economics
> teacher, and I started sewing at age 4 or 5. I messed up a lot in the
> intervening 20 years. Kids at school made fun of me for being a boy who
> could sew. I guess I showed them now! or not...

> Shawn

Messages In This Thread

Make Your Own Drytop
Shawn Baker -- 11/5/1999, 2:13 pm
bashfully seeking sewing advice
Will Brockman -- 11/8/1999, 9:37 am
Re: bashfully seeking sewing advice
Tom P -- 11/8/1999, 9:15 pm
Re: bashfully seeking sewing advice
Shawn Baker -- 11/8/1999, 10:12 am
Re: Make Your Own Drytop
Shawn Baker -- 11/6/1999, 10:41 pm
Link to seattle fabrics
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/6/1999, 10:56 pm
Re: Make Your Own Drytop
Nancy -- 11/6/1999, 7:43 pm
Re: Make Your Own Drytop
Don Lueder -- 11/6/1999, 9:57 am
Re: Make Your Own Nylon Sprayskirt
Shawn Baker -- 11/7/1999, 11:08 am
Re: requests
lee -- 11/5/1999, 11:00 pm
Re: Fabric Paddlefloat
Shawn Baker -- 11/7/1999, 10:38 am
Re: Make Your Own Drytop
mike allen -- 11/5/1999, 7:20 pm
Re: Make Your Own Drytop
Dean Trexel -- 11/5/1999, 7:32 pm
I Humbly beg the forgiveness of All!
too ashamed to say -- 11/5/1999, 7:37 pm
Re: Make Your Own Drytop
Tammy Hanks -- 11/5/1999, 6:48 pm
Re: Make Your Own Drytop
Dean Trexel -- 11/5/1999, 6:33 pm