Message-Id: <v01510100ad18ad0c8ea8@[205.219.167.64]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 18:51:27 -0500
To: baidarka@imagelan.com
From: mindport.net!schade@imagelan.com (Nick Schade)
Subject: Suject for discussion...
This list has been pretty dead lately. In an effort to stir up some
discussion I submit the following question:
"Baidarka" seems to be the term used to name traditional style, aleut based
"skin"-on-frame kayaks. What are the criteria to earn the right to this
designation. Dyson's aluminum-nylon-hypalon boats can hardly be called
traditional. Rob Macks' strip-built interpretation is not skin-on-frame.
The greenland style designs can fill all the criteria except being aleut
based. So what exactly is a "baidarka"?
Maybe, someone is snow-bound and has time on their hands and is willing to
turn this question into a lively discussion.
Nick Schade