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Re: Skin-on-Frame: waterproof hatches
By:Jeff Buyer
Date: 2/2/2009, 7:59 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: waterproof hatches (Kent LeBoutillier)

When you cut through a well-stretched nylon skin, does it contract away from the cut? If so, I would think you might have trouble installing the hatch, and would lose the stretch in that part of the deck.

Also, the bit about using sewing hoops for a hatch was on the Black Dog kayaks forum.

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Skin-on-Frame: waterproof hatches
Bill Hamm -- 1/31/2009, 9:41 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: waterproof hatches
Kent LeBoutillier -- 2/2/2009, 5:42 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/3/2009, 2:53 am
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Jeff Buyer -- 2/2/2009, 7:59 am
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Kent LeBoutillier -- 2/2/2009, 11:37 am
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Jeff Buyer -- 2/2/2009, 12:59 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: waterproof hatches *LINK*
Phil Nelson -- 1/31/2009, 8:17 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/31/2009, 9:16 pm
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Phil Nelson -- 2/1/2009, 4:07 am