Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 15:14:28 -0500
From: "Wolfgang Brinck" <wolfgang.brinck@hksystems.com>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: [baidarka] roomier boats
In the traditional design, the nose piece is lashed to the bow section
of the keelson and slides under the cross blocks that join the gunwales.
If you want to go simpler a number of options are available:
1) make up the nose piece of a horizontal piece and a vertical piece
which you peg together.
2) Make the keelson in one piece and peg it into a notch in the vertical
component of the nose piece. This is how the Kodiak builders did it.
3) Peg the gunwales directly to the horizontal part of the nose piece
instead of the cross blocks.
I can't promise any drawings before this weekend, but if I do get around
it, they will appear at http://www.mixweb.com/nativewater
Philip Jacobs wrote:
>
> >However, people who teach baidarka building seem to
> >simplify the design of the bow to make the building less time consuming.
>
> Wolfgang
> I just finished reading your book; do you have any sketches of some of these
> simplified designs that you could post (along with your web site address)?
> Thanks.
>
> Philip Jacobs
> jaco0253@gold.tc.umn.edu