"Walt" wrote in message ...
| Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:
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| wrote in message ups.com...
| |I just purchased a used Escape Rumba. The centerboard is split right
| | down the middle. I called the Escape company and was told I could get a
| | new one for $95, but it is on 2 week backorder.
| |
| | How hard would it be to make a new one myself? Can I just buy a certain
| | type of wood, cut out the shape, bevel the edges, put on some type of
| | water-proof seal ??
| |
| | Or, I could glue the old one back together?
| |
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| Forget all about wood, epoxy and other high maintenance systems
| that will warp, bend, crack and swell.
|
| Get a piece of Starboard plastic and fashion your centerboard
| from it. You will have a trouble-free centerboard.
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|
http://www.jamestowndistributors.com...goryId%7E 305
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| "It is the choice of thousands of boat owners for hatches, doors, rails,
| handles, cup holders, fishing rod holders, counters, chairs, tables,
| frames and other boat trim."
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| Let me know when somebody starts making foils out of it. I'm highly
| skeptical that it would be even minimally adequate, even if it you could
| get it in a sufficient thicknesses.
|
| //Walt

Take a look at a Hobie rudder sometime. It's not troublesome wood.
And, a foil need not be thick to work well.

RWE