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Re: Material: Fiberglass Kayak Polo Boats
By:QuicksilverMike
Date: 4/16/2009, 6:35 am
In Response To: Re: Material: Fiberglass Kayak Polo Boats (Bill Hamm)

It's easy. My canoe polo team mates and I built 7 polo boats from one mold in one week. We used polyester resin, the mold was well used and had a few defects, but hey, the boats are still in service after nine seasons of polo.
No gel coat, so they are clear. We put chopped reflective plastic wrapping paper in a couple of boats to good effect.
tomorrow I will try and post a pic.
If you have to make a mold though, you have much more work to do. 1st make a plug, or replica kayak, or slightly easier, borrow a boat that you can coat in mold release to make a female mold. The mold has to be mirror finished gel coat, Every defect in a mold will show in what comes out of it.
Canoe polo is great fun! Good luck with the project.
Mike Moss

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Material: Fiberglass Kayak Polo Boats
Rob Harshbarger -- 4/15/2009, 5:38 pm
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Daniel Liang -- 11/5/2009, 8:32 pm
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Charles Robinson -- 11/6/2009, 9:43 am
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Rob Harshbarger -- 4/16/2009, 2:18 pm
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Reg Lake -- 4/16/2009, 1:23 pm
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Ken Brunton -- 4/16/2009, 11:33 am
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Sam McFadden -- 4/16/2009, 10:20 am
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mike allen -- 4/15/2009, 10:14 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/16/2009, 12:40 am
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QuicksilverMike -- 4/16/2009, 6:35 am
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Matthew -- 4/19/2009, 8:02 pm
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Charlie -- 4/15/2009, 8:02 pm