On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:05:17 -0400, Steve Cramer
wrote:

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.

I'm in the UK...

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.

Yes, the outer skin reminded me of polyethelene (rather than ABS,
which I think is harder).

Al D