Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 11:20:25 -0700
From: Ranald Gault <gaultr@cadvision.com>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: Zimmerly
carrot wrote:
>
> How can I get hold of Zimmerly's work. It is not available through any sources that I can find in Tasmania were I
> live.
> Craig Wilkin, Deviot, Tasmania carrot@vision.net.au
Craig,
I naturally felt compelled to fossick about and see if anything could be
found, and I regret to tell you that I can't find any current sources
for David Zimmerly's past work. His publications for the Canadian
Ethnographic Service are long out of print, and the exhibition book
'Qajak' (published by the Alaska State Museum) seems to be unavailable
as well. 'Small Boat Journal', which carried the previously mentioned
construction article as a two-parter in the Feb/March and April/May 1983
issues, is no more.
'WoodenBoat' carried an article by Zimmerly on the Hooper Bay Kayak in
the next year along with a Derrell Short article on the Kodiak Kayak
(WB#58, May/June 1984). Articles on regional types appeared in the
following early issues of 'Sea Kayaker':
V1#3 Winter 1984, Arctic Kayak Paddles.
V1#4 Spring 1985, The Kodiak Three-Hole Kayak.
V2#1 Summer 1985, The Copper Eskimo Kayak.
V2#2 Fall 1985, The East Hudson Bay Kayak.
V2#3 Winter 1985, The Mackenzie Eskimo Kayak.
V2#4 Spring 1986, The Paakalik (Two seater from Hudson Bay).
V3#1 Summer 1986, The Norton Sound Kayak.
Some of these may be available as back issues, but most of the material
in 'Sea Kayaker' was collected into the book 'Qajak' so that's the best
way to get it if you can discover a copy through second-hand dealers.
The end notes on Zimmerly's articles often mentioned that sheet plans
for several types were available by direct mail-order from his then
current address in Ottawa. However, as another list member noted, the
good Doctor absconded over the horizon with wife Helga in their sailboat
'Erasmus' years ago, and their perennially under-construction web page
dead ends without an e-mail address. We can only hope that he will
eventually return and re-issue his excellent work, or at least allow
someone to act as a distributor for the formerly available sets of study
plans.
- Ranald Gault