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    Carbon fiber?

    I've been seeing a lot of Hydrostream rebuilds mentioning the use of carbon fiber. Is there any advantage to using carbon fiber? Any issues having say the outside skin of the transom in original glass and the inside rebuilt with carbon? Skin of hull in glass and carbon covering the core? Seems like both sides of a composite should be skinned in the same material but maybe I'm wrong?

    I have no interest in using carbon myself, just curious what the experts think!
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    Ya need to know how to use it but just too dang spendy
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    It’s stronger and lighter but from everything I read about restos it’s not really worth using. A new 100% carbon hull is another story. I know of a race foil hull that is 100% carbon fibre
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    This is an old thread but I figured I'd share what I found out after using Quadriaxial carbon on my floor. This video is an X F1 composites engineer and he goes into detail on the carbon vs S vs E vs Kevlar subject. I should've probably used S2 glass looking back but... If you have a foam core with carbon and drop a hammer on it, it's more likely to break through. With S or E glass being much more impact resistant it probably wouldn't. If I was building a boat it would be Epoxy and S glass with paint, no structural carbon.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHXV...csi7kM&index=2

    Back in the day the bomb shells were made of E Glass, problems was when they dropped them they found out the wings would break off affecting their trajectory. Dow Chemical developed S(Structural) glass and that fixed the problem.
    I now only use carbon and Carbon/Kevlar for cosmetic bling and that's about it.
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