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Re: Frame gets skin
By:Prasad Bhatla
Date: 9/20/2010, 5:01 pm
In Response To: *NM* *NM* *PIC* (Greywuuf)

Hi

Wrinkly or not, its a great effort.

Maybe try to warm the skin (pvc ??) and re-tension the binding, will help get rid or atleast reduce the wrinkles. A sort of face lift.!

When I built my Yost SeaTour16-R , I had to stick on the deck singlehanded, and as I used a 2 part polyurethane glue,
an industrial grade contact cement-- did not have the liberty of positioning prior to gluing with heat reactivation unlike HH-66-- result-- quite a few wrinkles
at the gunwale, but not too bad. Causes some unwanted ripples and purist will say drag . Live with it !!

She padddles great.

You can see her at http://sofcrafts.cwahi.net/launch.html

Hope you keep us posted with your progress.

Prasad

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: the Sea Tour gets a skin (sort of) *PIC*
Greywuuf -- 9/12/2010, 8:20 pm
*NM* *NM* *PIC*
Greywuuf -- 9/12/2010, 8:22 pm
Re: *NM* *PIC*
Jim Ham -- 9/20/2010, 7:46 pm
Re:
Bill Hamm -- 9/21/2010, 2:47 pm
Re:Wrinkles
Prasad Bhatla -- 9/22/2010, 11:41 am
Re:Wrinkles
Bill Hamm -- 9/22/2010, 12:33 pm
Re: *PIC*
Foster -- 9/21/2010, 12:31 pm
Re:
Bill Hamm -- 9/21/2010, 2:46 pm
Re: Frame gets skin
Prasad Bhatla -- 9/20/2010, 5:01 pm