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Re: Durability worries
By:Mike Hanks
Date: 3/23/2001, 11:09 pm
In Response To: Durability worries (Jim P.)

Jim,

No but I have dropped a loaded kayak (person included) from 2 feet up, onto some rocks, no sand, just softball sized rocks! I was petrified, scared to look! But when I checked, I realized I had some scratches in the VARNISH, didn't get into the glass at all. I have put some other scratches in it from particularly sharp rocks, but these boats are pretty durable. I'm not nearly as carfull with my kayaks as I was two years ago. They have proven to be quite tough, but they do suffer cosmetic damage from time to time.

I do know someone who has holed a production fiberglass Sitka though.

Mike, whose brother is still alive (inside joke for the old-timers on the board)

: What the??!!! Now, while George may be a bit abrasive from time to time, I've
: had no reason to believe he was actually insane. Has anybody here
: experienced catastrophic failure in such gentle conditions as George
: described?

: Worried in Wisconsin
: (Jim)

Messages In This Thread

Durability worries
Jim P. -- 3/23/2001, 10:29 pm
Re: Durability worries
Pete Rudie -- 3/27/2001, 12:27 am
Re: G.R. :)
Dean Trexel -- 3/27/2001, 12:16 pm
Re: G.R. :)
Bruce -- 3/27/2001, 12:54 pm
:) *NM*
Bruce -- 3/27/2001, 11:10 am
Re: :) :) :) :) :) *NM*
Grant Goltz -- 3/27/2001, 10:25 am
Re: Durability worries
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 3/26/2001, 11:10 am
durability? build a second boat :)
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/26/2001, 2:53 am
Re: durability? build a second boat :)
Jim P. -- 3/26/2001, 8:28 am
Re: durability? build a lighter third boat!
Lee Gardner -- 3/26/2001, 3:03 pm
Re: Durability worries
Bruce -- 3/25/2001, 9:48 pm
Re: Don't worry
Lee Gardner -- 3/24/2001, 11:40 am
Re: Durability (don't) worries
Mike -- 3/24/2001, 11:16 am
Re: Durability worries
Julie Kanarr -- 3/24/2001, 9:38 am
Re: Durability worries
Rob Macks -- 3/24/2001, 8:43 am
Re: Durability worries
Mike Hanks -- 3/23/2001, 11:09 pm