Everybody knows that epoxy is bad, very bad but plain wood is much better.
I heard that story of a guy using a blow torch on his stitch and glue boat
and the thing caught fire!
"Accept the claims of epoxy purveyors and promoters at your peril. "

The older the boat building technique the better.
Do not trust resin or fiberglass, these are very dangerous products.
Worms will eat polyester, glass will rot. You'll get cancer just from
looking at resin
and anyway, it would be a sin to make boat building easy and eliminate
maintenance.

Only a old fashioned wooden kayak would have resisted that treatment.
No?
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Jacques
http://www.bateau.com

"William R. Watt" wrote in message
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The owner of an epoxy sheathed plywood (okume marine) kayak was showing me
today the deterioration in the surface ply on the inside of the hull. The
builder had let the boat sit outside over the winter mistakenly assuming
epoxy was impervious to H2O. Snow accumulated in the cockpit, melted,
froze, melted again, and by late spring there was 6" of melt water inside
the hull. The epoxy sheathing on the inside of the hull did not stop the
water from getting at the plywood and starting rot. Accept the claims of
epoxy purveyors and promoters at your peril.
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