Scott,
My RR turtle deck weighs 8.6 pounds. I purchased it in 1986. It has two or
three layers of fiber glass cloth (hard to tell how many) and gell coat. Total
thickness varies from 0.074 to 0.095 inches. The gell coat probably adds a lot
to the overall weight. Bad news. But, the good news is the UV protection is
built into the gell coat without metal filler. My VHF antenna hiding under the
turtle deck will work just fine without the Smooth-Prime metal shielding.
Smooth-Prime goes on all my vinyl ester and other epoxy surfaces. The
removable bulkhead at the rear of my baggage shelf adds a lot of stiffness to
the turtle deck and overall tail structure on my KR-2. The turtle deck is
fastened to the wooden structure with ss screws and aluminum angle. It takes
six minutes to remove the turtle deck and get at everything in the tail section.
Sid Wood KR-2 N6242
Mechanicsville, MD [email protected]
----- I'm very pleased with the results, I'd venture a
guess that my turtledeck weighs less than 2 pounds?
Does anyone have a weight of a Rand Robinson
Turtledeck and could weigh it for comparison?
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Scott Cable
KR-2S # 735
Wright City, MO
[email protected]
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