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Re: Sea Bright URL
By:Nick Schade
Date: 8/3/1998, 3:15 pm
In Response To: Re: Sea Bright URL (Scotty)

I have paddled the Sea Bright kayak. It is pretty good. It is made of the real estate sign material. It is a one piece bottom totured around pvc pipe stringers. I think it would be difficult to install a good bulkhead because of the stringers.

>

> Roy; I'm beginning to form an image of something like "tortured
> plywood", but with some chine bends at the corrugation lines
> which likely run fore and aft. The picture in the water is heeled
> to port, and obscures most hull detail such as chines, though it does
> show the fine entry you mention. I believe I may have used the material
> on a small scale in Real Estate signs. I gather the hull is one piece,
> folded without cutting at the keel, likewise at several chine lines.
> I was sorely tempted to jump at it, as a quicker, cheaper way into
> the water, but leery of the mystery and rampant superlatives that
> clouded their ads. I bet the weight is under thirty pounds. Tell us
> more--- is it possible to add bulkheads, and maybe a hatch or two..?
> If you can, compare it to the CLC discussion of hull shapes? TNX,
> Scotty

Messages In This Thread

Folding kayak for Greenland (plans?)
Sebastien BAERD -- 7/28/1998, 4:09 pm
Re: Folding kayak for Greenland (plans?)
Timothy - Toronto, Ontario -- 8/11/1998, 1:56 pm
Oops.
Timothy - Toronto, Ontario -- 8/11/1998, 2:00 pm
Re: Oops.
Mark Kanzler -- 8/11/1998, 3:51 pm
Re: Folding kayak for Greenland (plans?)
Rich Kuchar -- 7/30/1998, 8:54 am
Re: Sea Bright URL
Roger Tulk -- 7/30/1998, 11:25 pm
Re: Sea Bright URL
chris rolt -- 7/30/1998, 11:47 pm
Re: Sea Bright URL
Rich Kuchar -- 7/31/1998, 1:35 pm
Re: Sea Bright URL
Alice Bennett -- 8/22/1998, 1:28 pm
Re: Sea Bright URL
CHad -- 7/31/1998, 3:22 pm
Re: Sea Bright URL
Roy Sabolevsky -- 8/1/1998, 11:55 pm
Re: Sea Bright URL
Scotty -- 8/2/1998, 5:43 pm
Re: Sea Bright URL
Nick Schade -- 8/3/1998, 3:15 pm
Re: Sea Bright Skimmer
R. N. Sabolevsky -- 8/6/1998, 12:31 pm
Re: Sea Bright Skimmer
Alice Bennett -- 8/7/1998, 9:43 pm
Re: Sea Bright Skimmer
R. N. Sabolevsky -- 8/8/1998, 12:26 pm
Re: Folding kayak for Greenland (plans?)
CHad -- 7/30/1998, 3:18 pm
Re: Folding kayak for Greenland (plans?)
Mark Kanzler -- 7/30/1998, 3:42 pm
Re: Folding kayak for Greenland (plans?)
Mark Kanzler -- 7/30/1998, 4:58 pm
Re: Folding kayak for Greenland (plans?)
Mark Kanzler -- 7/28/1998, 4:15 pm