Steve Cramer wrote:
Amongst a very learned treatise on canoe materials, riverman wrote:
Some boats,
like Coleman, use a very thin layup of ABS to save weight, and aluminum
tubes to help it keep its shape. This is bad.

Colemans are/were made of RAM-X polyethylene, not ABS, which is a
different material altogether. The second sentence is correct.

Steve

You are correct, sir; Colemans are not ABS. I should have saved Coleman
for the treatise on Poly boats. There is also the entire constraint of
which materials are naturally buoyant or not, as well as which ones can
be molded with sharper angles, and also which ones offer the best
puncture resistance.

Meanwhile, what do you guys think of this whole Horizon/Woodsman deal?
It sounds like MR is looking to dump a bunch of Horizon-16s on the
market under the radar. Anyone got any industry contacts to find out
what's up? Sounds to me like CW generated a bunch of hulls that had a
high percentage of blems, so they dumped the whole lot on the market
under a false brand to avoid tarnishing the MR repuation. Maybe they
learned from their Explorer growing pains.


--riverman