Make a Lamoille lighter

[ErAh]

Maybe I will add glass layer in stern and bow, just for skidplate.

As I know one finnish kayak repair shop, they use only glass when they repair kayaks, even kayaks can be with kevlar or carbon structured.

 

[ErAh]

It was long wait to get carbon fibres fron Germany to Finland. I don't find 150 cm wide carbon fabric from my local shop, so I must order them from Germany.

Today I laminate 2 layers over the plug and it was much more difficult and time consuming, than I expect. Now I should wait long enough to get laminate out of plug.

I dont take weight of fabrics or resin, but I use around 5 kg resin and that is really too much. But I cant do anything for it anymore, so there will be around one kilo too much weight. I hope that after this first phase, canoe weights around 8 kilos, but reality can becsomething like 9,5 kilos.

Sorry for dirty workshop....

 

[Alan Gage]

It looks very good so far. I am always disappointed with how much resin it takes for carbon and Kevlar if not infused or vacuum bagged.

Did you hand laminate both layers at once? I have found that to be very difficult with carbon and Kevlar but pretty easy with fiberglass.

I have a very messy shop too and I like seeing other messy shops. It makes me feel better about mine.

Alan

 

[ErAh]

I laminate both layers in same time, and it was not as easy as in my two sample laminatings what I made earlier. Smaller part were easy to do, but canoe was much much harder. It takes too long to squeeze resin in to laminate and get all air out.

Tomorrow I will give some heat for canoe maybe something like 40 celcius for 5 hours to speed up resin curing.