: Btw, the idea is to keep the glass/Dacron thin, this is a very
: flexible material and if you add extra cloth you create a hard
: spot that can cause a stress riser at the join between the
: stiffer fabric and the flexible skin which can cause a failure.
: Flexing is good.

: You can though add a strip of extra material, glass etc., at the
: stems and keel since there is a hard spot there anyway, wood
: under the fabric.

: Bill H.

Thanks Bill, I see the point..I'm actually toying with a few ideas, partially inspired by another Dane, who has built a few a what he calls GSOF's

One of them was to epoxy a 4" strip of fiberglass lenghtwise on the outside of each bottom stringer before covering with the dacron, then using the strips to lock squares of glass in place, essentially crating a sandwich hull, with the dacron as "ham"... but maybe not..

Ulrik