Message-Id: <199611202027.MAA00861@ns1.intelenet.net>
From: Wolfgang Brinck <wolfgang.brinck@hksystems.com>
Subject: Re: kostochki
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 14:23:34 CST
In-Reply-To: <32932665.3134@ix.netcom.com>; from "Ralph N. Mistler" at Nov 20, 96 10:40 am
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> wayne steffens wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone out there in baidarkaland have any comments on kostochki, the
> > bone/ivory joints used in some older (pre 1800 I guess) Aleut kayaks?
>
> Some of the literature says that kostochki were used to make a kayak
> "go faster".
>
> I'm think it's more likely that they were used to prevent the wood joints
> from wearing through as the parts of the frame flexed and rubbed against
> one another.
I'm with Ralph on the wear explanation.
I had heard some time back that Joseph Lubischer (sp?) was building a
replica with bone joints to actually test the speed contention. Don't
know if he ever did.
His writeup on the joints can be found in Contributions to Kayak Studies.
The Baidarka Historical Society had also published his monograph.
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