Message-Id: <199706182215.PAA13273@ns1.fidalgo.net>
From: "Osprey Tours" <kayak@fidalgo.net>
To: <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Subject: Re: Gear Storage
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:10:57 -0700
Bill
I have quite often paddled for 1 to 2 weeks out on the west side of
Vancouver Island and I am able to carry more than enough gear. One of the
nice things about skin boat construction is that we aren't tied to a form,
the kayak can be designed for your personal needs whether it is day
paddling or expeditions.
One way of creating more room inside the kayak is to laminate the deck
beams rather than cutting the arch out of a straight piece of wood. You can
attain the same strenght with thinner deck beams and without the
possibility of checking over time with the grain runoff.
Randy Monge Check out www.fidalgo.net/~kayak
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> From: Bill Blohm <bblohm@boi.hp.com>
> To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
> Subject: Re: just curious (fwd)
> Date: Wednesday, June 18, 1997 9:01 AM
>
> kolsen@imagelan.com wrote:
> > knee/back beam and is barely adequate for minimal camping for 3
days.The
> > largest item to pack was my sleeping bag and to make it fit i had to
> > store it loose in front of my feet,next largest item was the sleeping
> > pad which i tied onto the rear deck.Hope this helps. Tom
>
> This part got me to wondering. I realize that it's not
> "practical" to design this way, but...
>
> If you intend and do a lot of camping out of the boat
> why NOT set up the cockpit while building so that it is
> a little long aft? Make this additional dimension of a
> length necessary to pack your sleeping bag vertically in
> this space. This provides two advantages over your
> description above: 1) the bag isn't loose in front of
> your feet, and 2) it provides a comfortable backrest.
>
> When not camping out of the boat, you could either put
> in the sleeping bag just for the comfort or slip in an
> alternate backrest.
>
> Just some impromptu thinking spawned by Tom's post.
>
> Bill B.
>
> P.S> By "practical" in my first paragraph, I mean that it's
> not practical to design a boat for the needs of a few campers,
> but when building it might be a good idea to modify the
> design this way if you know you'll be doing a lot of camping.