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Strip: glass layout - too much glass?
By:mike johnson
Date: 8/2/2002, 3:50 pm

I'm close to glassing my first strip kayak (a guillemot single). I think I'll glass the inside with 6 oz fabric and the outside with 4 oz (top and bottom). I'll put a layer of 6 oz on top of the 4 oz along the keel line for some more abrasion resistance (as well as other places on the kayak). Is the 6 oz too much fabric? Could I get by just doing the whole thing in 4 oz? That would be simpler. I need some seasoned advice here.

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Strip: glass layout - too much glass?
mike johnson -- 8/2/2002, 3:50 pm
Re: Strip: glass layout - too much glass?
Chip Sandresky -- 8/3/2002, 5:23 pm
Re: Strip: glass layout - too much glass?
Emmett -- 8/2/2002, 10:40 pm
Re: Strip: glass layout - too much glass?
Sam McFadden -- 8/3/2002, 1:00 am
Re: Strip: glass layout - too much glass?
Joe -- 8/2/2002, 6:57 pm
Re: Strip: glass layout - too much glass?
Sam McFadden -- 8/2/2002, 6:41 pm