I tried to find some info because I've never heard of the stuff. All the
sites Google pulled up were in the UK, and buying a plastic canoe from a
dealer in the UK if you live in the US can't be clever. Nothing about
Brits, but they're 3K miles from here and you can't even make it a road
trip. The Brighton Canoes price seems to be about the same as the
typical ABS canoe in the US.

There are other foam core plastics produced right here in the USofA (see
Old Town Discovery series) and they seem to have the same
characteristics: durable, not very expensive, on the heavy side.
Corelite seems to be a polyethylene (kayaks are made of high density
polyethelene), which is tough stuff.

Steve

Al D wrote:
I'm looking at canoes made in the UK from a material called Corelite.
I'm having trouble finding information on the material except that it
is some kind of foam sandwiched between an inner and outer skin of
some kind of plastic. Dealers are calling it 'the new hull material'
etc. I'm wondering if it's a good material for canoe hulls. Obviously
the dealers will be quick to defend it if they are selling the
product, but does any end-user have any comments on its
durability/strength/practicality, etc?

TIA,

Al D


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Steve Cramer
Athens, GA