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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Designing for low tracking
By:Charlie
Date: 12/27/2009, 11:17 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Designing for low tracking (brian scarborough)

You said the magic word-"two-part".
In my experience banging out a $150 skinboat means no fancy wear strips and no coatings that require anything more than a paintbrush and a warm spot in my basement. Can low-buck tinkerers like me afford to use Corey Goop? Does this stuff have a haz-mat sheet?

: Don't worry, don't worry! Nylon skin with various polyurethane
: coatings has been proven durable and reliable by many rock
: garden paddlers in coastal waters. If it can survive rocks,
: barnacles, and shells, it'll do fine. Thin HDPE rub strips on
: high wear areas like bow/stern keels and chines is a good idea,
: and will certainly prolong the life of the skin.

: One year at the South Sound Traditional and Inuit Kayak Symposium,
: Mike Hanks had made a panel of 8oz nylon coated in 2 part Corey
: Goop polyurethane from Spiritline. It was in a wooden frame, so
: it was reasonably tight. As a fundraiser, we all paid a buck try
: to drive various pointed things through it, culminating with a
: knife. As I recall, the kitchen fork just bent, and you had to
: go really really hard with the knife in order to do anything
: more than dent the skin.

: It's durable!

: Brian

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Designing for low tracking
Kudzu -- 12/25/2009, 7:12 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Designing for low tracking
Scott Shurlow -- 12/27/2009, 10:16 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Designing for low tracking
Kudzu -- 12/27/2009, 10:40 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Designing for low tracking
Brian Nystrom -- 12/25/2009, 9:39 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Designing for low tracking
Kudzu -- 12/26/2009, 11:09 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Designing for low tracking
Chuck Gandy -- 12/26/2009, 3:35 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Designing for low tracking
Charlie -- 12/26/2009, 4:23 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Designing for low tracking
Kudzu -- 12/27/2009, 10:39 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Designing for low tracking
brian scarborough -- 12/27/2009, 10:02 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Designing for low tracking
Charlie -- 12/27/2009, 11:17 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Designing for low tracking
brian scarborough -- 12/27/2009, 7:13 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Designing for low tracking
Kudzu -- 12/27/2009, 8:17 pm