Crazy or good idea?

[billcanoes]

I just got a SuperFly Hull with no outfitting. When I had my spanish Fly I wished the was a way to carry stuff easily in the boat.

Anyway, thinking about outfitting the Hull. I thought about buying the $25.00/gal foam, and using it (with air bags, or other option to hollow out the mold". Then I thought about caulking 3mm plastic into a top groove and using a latch sea kayak system for internal access.

Would this work, would it be too heavy or am I just being foolish?

Bill

[DP]

I think you'll find that that stuff will obsorb water and break down into pieces.

Was that one of the infamous "new" SuperFlys from the spring splash?

[billcanoes]

Yep it sure was, the plastic looks terrible, but it will be a good alternative at least for me -till the fatboys come in- I had a Spanish FLy, which I liked a lot, but I hardly used it, so this should work for the few times I will paddle it.

Bill

[Guest]

That liquid foam produces an open cell product, and has little, if any, use in outfitting that I know of. It seems to act like a sponge when submerged in water. The end product would just keep getting heavier with every use on the river.

$25 a gallon was the price twenty years ago, and it took two gallons (one of each of the the two-part mix) to get started. Volume control during expansion was also a problem. Repeated applications would result in uneven consistency and air gaps. The product seemed to promise a lot in terms of ease of use and as a quick solution to "foaming out" a boat. But it just never seemed to work that way in practice.

Even when working with plugs, the stuff has very limited application. I think the building/construction industry finds it good for insulation that is not exposed to water, but I am not even sure about that.

Paddlers just have not found it to be useful, and it has been around for two or three decades. I don't know anybody that has used it twice!

[billcanoes]

Thanks for the feed back I'll scrap the wet mush idea.

Bill