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Old 04-25-2014, 06:44 PM   #1 (permalink)
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2011 Tundra Aero Cap: ZZ Topper

I have been watching with admiration the various iterations of efficient shapes for toppers. I have been building my own boats in plywood or strip planks for 35 years and both wanted an efficient cap and to experiment with a newly discovered product: Plascore. There are many different varieties of Plascore but a light and inexpensive choice popular with drift boat builders is the polypropylene honeycomb core with a fiberglass scrim bilaterally in the panel build. It is light and cheap. I plan to incorporate Plascore into if not as the main component in my next composite flats boat. Here are photos in a near completed state on Easter 2014. Plascore, fiberglass fabric, epoxy resin, plywood cored forward bulkhead, gas struts soon, plexiglass rear window like the Prius, and Monstaliner bedliner sprayed and rolled in/out. I must learn how to compress the photos apparently.

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