The Kevlar cloth was definitely saturated.
FWIW, a couple photos and inspection results from the skid plate materials impact and abrasion experiment.
I laid down some of the (five) kevlar felt test materials resin rich, some less so, some pigmented. All test pieces were laid on a flat-ish surface, not a canoe stem where excess resin is more likely to drip off the sharply curved edges, which would only make some of the resin saturation
surprises worse.
P3130003 by
Mike McCrea, on Flickr
P3140005 by
Mike McCrea, on Flickr
I slathered a coats of resin, some thick, some pigmented, on the vinyl siding test surface, laid pieces of kevlar felt on the resin bed and laid down topcoats of black pigmented resin, again, some resin heavy, some lighter.
No question that the resin rich pieces of kevlar felt suffered more impact damage than the more reasonably epoxied ones.
P3170001 by
Mike McCrea, on Flickr
P3280003 by
Mike McCrea, on Flickr
The more lightly/reasonably saturated kev felt did not shatter on impact as badly.
P3280005 by
Mike McCrea, on Flickr
All of them, as seen above, fuzzed when actually sanded down into the felt.
Even more strikingly, and kind of startlingly, when I removed the test pieces from the vinyl substrate, the un-peel-ply compressed pieces showed areas of resin starvation
on the bottom, especially where there was some molded slope to the vinyl siding, allowing the resin to creep down.
P3190005 by
Mike McCrea, on Flickr
I had never actually seen much of the resined bottoms of kevlar felt, and never seen any busted off chunks with pigmented resin to show fabric starvation. The black pigment in the resin mix was perfect to show areas of resin saturation/starvation.
Those test pieces of kev felt were not just on the resin starved missing-black bottoms. When I band saw cut the test pieces in half the un-peel-ply compressed felt was an Oreo cookie with a yellow center, even on the heavily saturated pieces
Peel ply compression with kevlar felt helps in several ways, and those skid plate material tests showed that any thick, resin-thirsty material may need to be vacuum bagged to force resin throughout the fabric or felt. Even the thick woven Kevlar tape showed some resin starvation on the bottom.
P3290029 by
Mike McCrea, on Flickr
That experiment was enough empirical evidence for me. 35 years of installing and repairing skid plates with different materials had already demonstrated much the same, but the ten material test pieces, including five kevlar felt pieces, at least eliminated my conformation bias.
Kevlar felt sucks.