I'm building a duck hunting layout boat, and it will probably face alot of
dragging across dirt/gravel. I'm thinking of doing the bottom in carbon
fiber.

anyone have a cheap source for carbon fiber?

anyone have a better idea?

Thanks,

Marc

Marc,

Please do some serious research and consider your
alternatives. Corbon fiber is very light, very strong and
not very abrasion resistant. Kevlar is more abrasion
resistant (as I Recall).

Matt Colie

Marc Reeves wrote:
I'm building a duck hunting layout boat, and it will probably face alot of
dragging across dirt/gravel. I'm thinking of doing the bottom in carbon
fiber.

anyone have a cheap source for carbon fiber?

anyone have a better idea?

Thanks,

Marc

Marc Reeves wrote:

I'm building a duck hunting layout boat, and it will probably face
alot of dragging across dirt/gravel. I'm thinking of doing the bottom
in carbon fiber.

anyone have a cheap source for carbon fiber?

anyone have a better idea?

Think you will find carbon is on allocation and it ain't cheap.

Try double bias glass and epoxy.

Lew

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Marc Reeves wrote:

I'm building a duck hunting layout boat, and it will probably face
alot of dragging across dirt/gravel. I'm thinking of doing the bottom
in carbon fiber.

anyone have a cheap source for carbon fiber?

anyone have a better idea?

Think you will find carbon is on allocation and it ain't cheap.

Try double bias glass and epoxy.

Lew

Matt Colie wrote:
Marc,

Please do some serious research and consider your
alternatives. Corbon fiber is very light, very strong and
not very abrasion resistant. Kevlar is more abrasion
resistant (as I Recall).

Matt Colie

Kevlar for the hull, carbon fiber for the mast, on a sailboat.

For abrasion resistance carbon is definitely the right material. Neither
is Kevlar. Kevlar fuzzes up and carbon fiber is not flexible enough. Best
to use is a tight weave e-glass cloth and fill the weave with epoxy with a
large addition of powdered graphite. That is a pretty standard bottom for
McKenzie style drift boats.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Marc Reeves" wrote in message
. ..
I'm building a duck hunting layout boat, and it will probably face alot of
dragging across dirt/gravel. I'm thinking of doing the bottom in carbon
fiber.

anyone have a cheap source for carbon fiber?

anyone have a better idea?

Thanks,

Marc

For abrasion resistance carbon is definitely NOT the right material

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
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For abrasion resistance carbon is definitely the right material. Neither
is Kevlar. Kevlar fuzzes up and carbon fiber is not flexible enough.
Best to use is a tight weave e-glass cloth and fill the weave with epoxy
with a large addition of powdered graphite. That is a pretty standard
bottom for McKenzie style drift boats.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Marc Reeves" wrote in message
. ..
I'm building a duck hunting layout boat, and it will probably face alot
of dragging across dirt/gravel. I'm thinking of doing the bottom in
carbon fiber.

anyone have a cheap source for carbon fiber?

anyone have a better idea?

Thanks,

Marc

Marc Reeves wrote:
I'm building a duck hunting layout boat, and it will probably face alot of
dragging across dirt/gravel. I'm thinking of doing the bottom in carbon
fiber.

anyone have a cheap source for carbon fiber?

anyone have a better idea?

Thanks,

Marc



Yeah, use Kevlar instead of carbon.

Thanks guys,

I've decided against the carbon fiber and to go, instead, with the
glass/epoxy/graphite option instead

Did you look at plywood with a glass-epoxy skin... I'm willing to bet
that in comparable panel strengths as compared to an all fiberglass
hull, this will be lighter and cheaper... LOWES has exterior Luan ply,
5.1mm, for roughly ten bucks a sheet... I just finished building a 7.5
foot dink this way and you can pick it up with one hand...

denny