10-01-2008, 12:56 PM
Sounds like a privately made kayak and not a manufactured one.
I don't know of any manufactures who would use birch wood or paint on the upper deck. Most use more expensive tropical marine wood, and want it to be seen. It is possible that after some time it was painted by the owner to cut down on maintainence.
No matter what it sounds like a nice lite kayak that should give you lots of pleasure. At 43lbs it sounds like it was made of 3mm and does not have much resin or glass cloth on it, probably just the seams taped and the rest epoxy to wood.
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I don't know of any manufactures who would use birch wood or paint on the upper deck. Most use more expensive tropical marine wood, and want it to be seen. It is possible that after some time it was painted by the owner to cut down on maintainence.
No matter what it sounds like a nice lite kayak that should give you lots of pleasure. At 43lbs it sounds like it was made of 3mm and does not have much resin or glass cloth on it, probably just the seams taped and the rest epoxy to wood.
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