Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:09:23 +0200
From: Gerald Maroske <gumaroske@email.uni-kiel.de>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: greeting - test
CEvonK@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 97-09-14 19:36:28 EDT, you write:
>
> > Does you folder/skin system work in a manner similar to the
> > FEATHERCRAFT boats? That is a bow section and stern section
> > inserted through the cockpit hole in the skin and spread apart by the
> > center section?
Yap. But I donīt use their kind of joints and I think my boat is
stiffer.
> >
> > I ask this because my design is for the frame to be assembled totaly first
>
> > and then slide into the bow section of the skin. The stern section of
> > the skin being open from the rear of the cockpit to the stern. After the
> > bow is inserted then the rear deck section folds over the frame and is
> > laced together (much like a shoe) to make everything tight.
How do you get the stern-tip watertight ? Assembling through the
cockpit looks
like more trouble in the first sight, but I think you are better off in
the long
run. If you are fearing stuck framework in a tight skin include a zipper
in the
deck sections underlaid by watertight cloth. That helps a lot.
In this case, the zipper has not to be watertight itself.
zipper
_______________^^________________ deckcloth
____________^ ^_____________
/-- --\
/ \
\__________/ extra cloth
\______________/
zipper closed opened
> > My design
> > does not include inflatable sponsons (although if I can't make things
> > tight enough I will try to fit them in).
I donīt use sponsons and I think it makes a better looking boat,
although a bit
trickier to assemble.
Gerald
(Iīm not the pope in folding-kayak design and there where many different
solutions
in the past, that worked well. Please donīt read my comments in the
sort-of-last-word-style of the german "Handbuch der Physik" as Kenneth
Brower notes!)
-- Gerald U. Maroske gumaroske@email.uni-kiel.de Geolog. Inst. Univ. Kiel, Germany 0431/ 880 4678 FAX:880 4376"Der Intellekt des Menschen ist seinem Charakter in keiner Weise gewachsen." nach G.P. Schiemenz