Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980709140843.00694484@mail.ptinet.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 14:08:43 -0700
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: Todd Schlemmer <nullman@ptinet.net>
Subject: Re: [baidarka] successful trip
In-Reply-To: <35A3C89E.DE6D8A85@email.uni-kiel.de>
oops. I didn't mean to fan any flames. I just wanted to point out that
there are expert paddlers out there that find folbots desirable.
Like any boat, a kayak/canoe/baidarka is a compromise between multiple
exclusionary criteria: Speed, Stability, Cost, Payload, Durability, etc.
etc. Many acceptable designs in the (huge) middle of all those variables.
bboT
At 09:29 PM 7/8/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Todd Schlemmer wrote:
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>> John (?) Dowd
>> is of the school of thought that a beamy folbot is better than one of Derek
>> Hutchison's narrow "canoes". They certainly carry more and are slower.
>>
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>Hm, I donīt want to fire up this truely inflammable topic, but John Dowd also
>made up his mind in the revised edition of his book "Sea Kayaking". There was
>the fact that the circumnavigations of Japan, the British Isles, New
Sealand and
>not to forget Australia were made by Paul Caffyn in a modified greenlandstyle
>"Nordkapp" with 54cm beam. Nigel Foster crossed the Hudson Bay entrance
alone in
>a similiar boat. It is always the paddler who counts more than the boat.
>(Lindemann captured also)
>
>But it was really funny to read their flames in the early issues of the
>SeaKayaking magazine. ;-)
>
>Please excuse my teaching style
>
>Gerald
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