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Re: Stripper weight.
By:Pedro Almeida
Date: 10/17/2007, 10:53 pm
In Response To: Re: Stripper weight. (Tim)

Tim,

I haven't built any wooden coamings, I've built CF/FG coamings on both kayaks I've built. By the end of this year, hopefully, I'll start my Redfish King and I'll put a CF/FG coaming on that one as well. I've never paddled a kayak with a wooden coaming, but I can tell you what I like about the composite ones. They are very strong yet light, they look good, they're relatively easy to build, and the lip is thin (about 1/8"). Also I like how the lip follows the same curvature of the deck, although I guess it would still be flat if you have a recessed cockpit. I build mine the way Vaclav from One Ocean Kayaks describes, except I use short pieces of strips to build the riser. The riser ends up being the full thickness of the CF/FG layup plus the riser.

After removing the coamings from the molds and trimming the lips to shape, they felt pretty light. I don't think they would be any lighter if they were made of wood.

Pedro Almeida

Messages In This Thread

Strip: ULTIMATE HULL LINING etc etc etc etc etc etc
Tim -- 10/17/2007, 4:03 am
Re: etc etc etc etc et
LeeG -- 10/18/2007, 4:42 pm
Re: Strip: ULTIMATE HULL LINING etc etc etc etc et
Bill Hamm -- 10/18/2007, 1:17 am
The answer is 42 -- Doug Adams
Paul G. Jacobson -- 10/18/2007, 12:34 am
Re: The answer is 42 -- Doug Adams
Tim -- 10/18/2007, 5:41 am
maybe mark that down to $41.95
Paul G. Jacobson -- 10/18/2007, 2:55 pm
Re: Strip: ULTIMATE HULL LINING etc etc etc etc et
Carl H -- 10/17/2007, 6:24 pm
Re: Strip: ULTIMATE HULL LINING etc etc etc etc et
Kent LeBoutillier -- 10/17/2007, 5:57 am
Stripper weight.
Jay Babina -- 10/17/2007, 8:58 am
Re: Stripper weight.
Tim -- 10/17/2007, 5:47 pm
Re: Stripper weight.
Bill Hamm -- 10/18/2007, 3:17 pm
Re: Stripper weight.
Pedro Almeida -- 10/17/2007, 10:53 pm
Re: Stripper weight.
Jay Babina -- 10/18/2007, 7:37 am
Carbon coamings
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 10/17/2007, 6:16 pm
Re: Carbon coamings
clicksys -- 10/18/2007, 8:25 am
Re: Carbon coamings
Pedro Almeida -- 10/20/2007, 10:46 am
Re: Carbon coamings
Bill Hamm -- 10/18/2007, 3:20 pm
Re: Carbon coamings
Ken Blanton -- 10/18/2007, 5:25 pm
Re: Carbon coamings
Bill Hamm -- 10/18/2007, 5:27 pm
Re: Carbon coamings
Ken Blanton -- 10/18/2007, 5:47 pm
Re: Carbon coamings
Kent LeBoutillier -- 10/18/2007, 11:59 am
Re: Carbon coamings
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 10/18/2007, 1:53 pm
Carbon coaming covers
mike allen -- 10/18/2007, 2:39 pm
Crazy- colored coaming covers
Paul G. Jacobson -- 10/18/2007, 3:01 pm
Laughing... 2 hard... 2 type!! *NM*
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 10/18/2007, 2:43 pm
Re: Strip: ULTIMATE HULL LINING etc etc etc etc et
Tim -- 10/17/2007, 6:23 am