I recently meet a fellow who seems knowledgable and makes an interesting claim.

He maintains he can build a competitve, minimum weight, A cat cheaply and easily using tortured plywood construction. He readily admits the hulls would be "disposable", but that he could easily knock of new hulls each season, or as needed.

Also, I recenlty read of a kayak being skinned with "ballistic nylon", yielding a 16' boat weighing 37 lbs.

Does anyone believe either of these claims?