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> While polyester is not as good as epoxy for the reasons you and others
> have said, it does work. If you are trying to build on-the-cheap,
> polyester is satisfactory. My brother is still using a 15 year old strip
> canoe made with polyester. Since small boats like canoes and kayaks are
> not generally stored in the water, the permeability of polyester resin is
> not that big a deal.
Yupp
A cheap and quit god way to build a kayak is to us polyester for glassing and epoxy for gluing. Also you can us Orthopolyester witch is quit watertight. The Swede Marin do not permit polyester in there boats only Orthopolyester . If you add some parafin into the last layer you dont get that sticky surface.
If you store your kayak in salt,warm water all the year you will have some delamination problems. But I don't think anyone store ther kayaks that way
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