Anybody see the colored hybrid carbon fabrics Soller Composites is carrying now? If you're not after that "wood" look it might be cool to add a vanity layer of this stuff on the deck and finish it bright. Click on the link, and scroll down a bit. It's right under the colored hybrid tubing.

http://www.solarcomposites.com/

So many kayaks and ways to build them, so few: 1. hours, 2. square feet in the shop, 3. square feet of storage for finished kayaks, 4. units of local currency.

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