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Craig is right. Minicell is superior to anything else.

If you are doing a throwaway-type rig, or are experimenting with design, try using ethafoam. It is a little cheaper than minicell and works reasonably well in most situations. But, plan on using minicell in the final and/or permanent setup.

Just to nip a potential rumor in the bud...

The Dickerson power plant is fired by coal/natural gas/oil.

http://www.mirant.com/our_business/wher ... kerson.htm

The best Royalex repair information is found by using the C-Forum search feature. There is a wealth of repair know-how to be found here. Anything on the subject posted by ClassFive Boats or Dixie_Boater is pretty much considered the last word in my book. The Mohawk website has a good set of illustra...

Aquaseal Polycoat works well if carefully applied. You use it on the fabric side opposite that which was coated when the garment's material was made. (The new coating adheres equally to the material and the coating which is failing. The new coating will flake off with the old one if you try to recoa...

I've heard of a boat manufacturer named Seda, and another manufacturer named Phoenix. But I am not aware of a C-1 named the Phoenix that was made by Seda. The Craig's List boat pictured looks like a Phoenix Seewun. That model boat is described on the Phoenix kayaks website. Note the Phoenix logo tha...

Taking a set of bathroom scales when you go boat shopping (new or used) is a very good idea. A 10 percent variance from the "factory" or advertised weight is very common, if not the rule. If you are looking for a lightweight boat, or even one with a "normal" amount of poundage, best to hoist it to y...

Paddled in the bow of a 17' Tripper my brother owned. Bought a 16' Shenandoah (one of the first group of ten Royalex hulls outfitted in a Luray, VA campground/canoe livery) that fall. Bought C-1’s after that from Gertler, Peters, and McKnight. Switched to plastic K-1’s when I got too old to do any r...

There have been multiple reports on this board of the solvent in Vynabond softening a hull made of an ABS/vinyl sandwich. When forces are applied to such softened hulls, the strata delaminate. Best to let all solvents evaporate completely before joining parts when gluing. Read the directions on the ...

I think Marshall is laying down epoxy resin on his glass boats. (He is a big person, and the sandstone in the low-water James River simply chews up his C-1 glass hulls! )

I was just wondering what type of molding process has to be used when building with Twintex. Is it possible to vacuum bag the Twintex layers before/during heating? How much heat (what temperature) is required to liquefy the pre impregnated polypro resin? If epoxy is still King of the Hill for streng...

Not so sure that you will get back on the water any faster using either the slow or fast hardner. Both require 1-4 days to achieve a full cure (although the temperature required for each to do so is different.) Heat is the equalizing factor with epoxy. Bake your boat at 130 degrees F if you want a h...

C-boating ain't the same as paddling a canoe! Rolling a C-1 is a finesse move. A lot of open boat paddlers rely more on a riskier (to their shoulders) "muscle-up" technique. Such a roll is easy to spot by the deep paddle dive and the face-out-of-the-water paddler position prior to recovery. Work on ...

Of course, I belatedly have noticed that the race date in the link that I suggested is in 2003. Sorry about the error.

This may be the race information you are looking for:

http://www.paddlermagazine.com/news/?AC ... number=109

Carbon fibers generally are delivered in "tows," or bundles of fibers. MerriamWebster.com has: 1 : short or broken fiber (as of flax, hemp, or synthetic material) that is used especially for yarn, twine, or stuffing 2 a : yarn or cloth made of tow b : a loose essentially untwisted strand of syntheti...