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Re: Fiberglass Kayaks
By:Nick Schade
Date: 8/15/1998, 12:57 am
In Response To: Fiberglass Kayaks (David Dick)

Get Charlie Walbridge's "Boat Builder's Manual". It is about building fiberglass kayaks (for white water but so what). It is the bible for composite boat construction, recommended reading no matter if your building strip, stitch & glue or whatever. Good info about materials and layups. Probably somewhat outdated but not enough to notice.

> I'm doing some estimating. Has anybody seen a published materials
> schedule for a fiberglass or Kevlar kayak? I'd like to know the number
> and thickness of plys and so forth.

> Thanks in advance,

> David

Messages In This Thread

Fiberglass Kayaks
David Dick -- 8/15/1998, 12:19 am
Re: Fiberglass Kayaks
Nick Schade -- 8/15/1998, 12:57 am
Re: Fiberglass Kayaks
David Dick -- 8/14/1998, 9:31 pm
Re: Fiberglass Kayaks
Martin Foil -- 8/17/1998, 11:18 am
Re: Fiberglass Kayaks
Nick Schade -- 8/15/1998, 5:48 pm
Re: Fiberglass Kayaks
Steve Bradbury -- 8/15/1998, 7:20 am