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Re: Strip: Cloth weight------WebKitFormBoundary9+v
By:Simeon
Date: 4/16/2009, 11:10 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Cloth weight------WebKitFormBoundary9+v (fred Gasper------WebKitFormBoundaryN716A2k+1Hk5yF0)

: What size boat and how flat is the bottom? Do you weigh 80 kg or 130 kg?

The boat is a single seat kayak of my own design, 5.05m by .55m, and has no flat sections anywhere aside from a little V well behind the cockpit. Outside of that, it is all compound curves.

I weigh a bit under 80 kg dry.

It seems that 6 oz cloth is pretty commonly used, but that seems pretty heavy/overkill to me?

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Strip: Cloth weight
Simeon -- 4/16/2009, 7:42 pm
Re: Strip: Cloth weight------WebKitFormBoundary9+v
fred Gasper------WebKitFormBoundaryN716A2k+1Hk5yF0 -- 4/16/2009, 10:26 pm
Re: Strip: Cloth weight------WebKitFormBoundary9+v
Simeon -- 4/16/2009, 11:10 pm
Re: Strip: Cloth weight------WebKitFormBoundary9+v
Fred -- 4/17/2009, 7:40 am
Glass weight
Allan -- 4/16/2009, 11:27 pm