a friend of mine has an open canoe made of glass 17 foot 6 inches long, the
boat was made in the early 70's by a neighbour to his own design, following
a conversation about the weight of it over a beer We have the go ahead to
use the hull as a mould. this canoe is ideal but far too heavy i.e 5mm
thick fibre glass. what i need to know is what reduction in weight could I
get by using kelvar or carbon fibre. I am looking for something that can be
loaded on the roof of an european car by one person easily. one of the lads
has an oldtown canoe the same size. But is a bit to heavy for one person,
the boat does not have to do rapids
is used on slow rivers just for fishing ie towed across lake by a boat
that cant go down this river. this is a great canoe but it needs more people
to lift it than can fit in it.
any ideas would be welcome