Subject: Re: [baidarka] Wood vs. Aluminum
From: Joseph O'Connor (jdoc@physics.ubc.ca)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 11:26:19 EST
Hi Douglas,
I coated all of my 21' Dyson Baidarka tubes with S1 sealer same as used to seal lashings
Little weight gain and slows down Oxidation.
Joe
19-Nov-02 10:18:47 PM, Douglas Huft <douglashuft@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Oxidation is noticeable but not bad enough to worry about so far. it gets a
>little fuzzy in places. As for the tubes bending, only once so far in some
>pretty extremely abusive conditions (double in big surf, repaired by
>"popping deck back out with a car jack", Avoided repeat by hopefully
>slightly better judgement/skill regarding surfing the double in large
>breaking surf and by addition of proper floatation).
>Douglas Huft
>Shields (Ikyak), Dyson Double (Alagulot)- soon to be a triple (Kaukunlott)
>and a "play baidarka" (Tshinatak).
>- in the works, a short(7'ish) flat bottomed planing hull, hard edged,
>squirty S.O.F. surf kayak in the works, you might call it a retrieval
>kayak.
>
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