before you guys get all bent out of shape -

1. I went to the website for Starboard plastic and it never mentions
using it to fashion boat parts that are used as control surfaces. Sure,
you can use it for a bench or a ladder, but to put it in the water as
your centerboard?? It says it has MATT surfaces on both sides (not very
slippery!)

2. The size of Starboard I would need cost $45 + shipping and then I
have to spend several hours cutting it to shape and rounding off all
the edges... compared to $95 + shipping and I get the official Escape
centerboard that can be installed in 5 minutes...

I really just want to get this thing out on the water before summer is
over and make sure it works... I can use a glue to get the centerboard
back together for now, then if I'm still happy with the boat by the end
of summer I'll order the factory centerboard - if I decide I do not
like it I'll post it on eBay.

Robert

Walt wrote:
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:

"Walt" wrote in message
| Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:

| Get a piece of Starboard plastic and fashion your centerboard
| from it. You will have a trouble-free centerboard.
|
http://www.jamestowndistributors.com...goryId%7E 305
|
| I'm highly
| skeptical that it would be even minimally adequate, even if it you could
| get it in a sufficient thicknesses.

Take a look at a Hobie rudder sometime. It's not troublesome wood.

And it's not Starboard plastic either. You've never made a foil out of
this stuff, have you? IOW, you're making it all up.


//Walt