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Female canoe mold difficulies
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Zedok
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posted 10 Years Ago
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Dravis,
Tks for the tips.
As seen on the attached pictures, moulds are standard tooling gelcoat, 2 layers 100g chopped strand, 3 layers 200g chopped stand, polyester resin. We'll see what the paddle will look like but I am considering to maybe do a flat paddle. I just wonder how to give the required stiffness when under load. I'll do my homework and find the solution (add many layers of carbon fibre? Laminate layers of carbon fibre interspaced with aramid? Required thickness?).
p.s. strange, when I attempt to attach the pictures (around 800kb), i get a popup message that says I exceeded the upload limit size for this message...
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Those are very light moulds...
A slight curve to the paddle would increase stiffness, and a 'rib' across the back would increase it greatly. The 'standard' paddle design is very suited to composites. You could do it with flat carbon, but it would be significantly heavier for the same stiffness.
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