Message-Id: <199807101356.JAA05046@mailhost.capecod.net>
From: "William H. Low" <billow@capecod.net>
To: <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Subject: Re: [baidarka] Deck lashings
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 09:56:19 -0400
I've tried several techniques with varying degrees of success. I now just
sew loops through the skin and attach bungie cords or what ever to the
loops. I have done this on a number of boats with no failure of any kind.
Bill Low
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> From: William J. Russell <russel79@idt.net>
> To: Baidarka Mail List <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
> Subject: [baidarka] Deck lashings
> Date: Thursday, July 09, 1998 12:59 PM
>
> HELP....I've almost completed my second Baidarka and I need some good
> tips for attaching deck rigging...on the first boat I made small
> hardwood loops that I screwed to the top of the gunwales and then
> threaded the lines through these loops...this worked OK but I'd like to
> find a different method....I'm toying with the idea of "pegging" rope
> loops at the points I want the deck rigging attached to the deck...I've
> seen one or two other boats with ropes pegged into the side of the
> gunwales and this seemed to work OK....anyone have any other method they
> use that might work for me???? any assistance in this regard would be
> greatly appreciated.....Russell