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Re: Material: Transparent Polycarbonate kayak
By:Marc Upchurch
Date: 7/26/2015, 9:36 am
In Response To: Material: Transparent Polycarbonate kayak (Peter Madsen)

I believe it scratches very easily.

You might be better off making a plywood kayak which has a flat bottom and inserting a panel of Polycarbonate.
That way you could replace it when it gets damaged.
When you get tired of that you can replace it with ply and have a useful kayak. Later.

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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