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Re: Material: Transparent Polycarbonate kayak
By:Robert W
Date: 7/25/2015, 7:05 pm
In Response To: Material: Transparent Polycarbonate kayak (Peter Madsen)

Furthermore...
If you expect that you'll be able to "see through" and into the water (and all that lives in it), you'll be quite disappointed. First, in a lot of places the water is too dark/murky/polluted etc. to allow transparency beyond a very short distance.
Second, the transparent material of the boat fogs-up quickly (from your body perspiration), thus obscuring any view.
For the aforementioned reasons, the concept is (IMHO) not worth bothering with (speaking based on personal experience)

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Material: Transparent Polycarbonate kayak
Peter Madsen -- 7/25/2015, 5:28 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 7/25/2015, 5:37 pm
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Peter Madsen -- 7/25/2015, 6:04 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 7/26/2015, 5:08 am
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Justin -- 7/25/2015, 6:04 pm
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Bob Ten Eyck -- 7/25/2015, 6:31 pm
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Robert W -- 7/25/2015, 7:05 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/26/2015, 12:29 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 7/26/2015, 9:36 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/27/2015, 12:22 am
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anewhouse -- 7/27/2015, 11:48 pm
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Thomas Duncan -- 7/28/2015, 9:24 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 7/28/2015, 8:55 pm
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Peter Madsen -- 8/8/2015, 2:07 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 8/10/2015, 10:29 am