Showing posts with label Inside tape seam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inside tape seam. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Where two halves meet inside and out

An often asked question of me is "what about the tape seam" and its one I love explaining.
Its the one part of the kayak that is susceptible to damage as most composiste kayaks are joined in the middle and that were it can get a bit tricky

The strongest way

 Basically there are two ways to join a kayak (composite that is ) one is a Chemical bond and that is achieved by laying a fiberglass tape along the join line and consolidating this with resin joining the two halves together .
On the below photo you can see the white tape seam just as I'm closing up the mould before joining,see that it goes all the way to the end--MOST IMPORTANT