Message-Id: <199807101633.MAA29515@shell.flinet.com>
From: "Ted Gallo" <tgiii@flinet.com>
To: <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Subject: Re: [baidarka] roomier boats
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:29:25 -0400
I have never made a long trip in a kayak. But after listening to the
exploits of this group I would like in all seriousness to ask a question
that has been bothering me. When you are far from shore in a narrow kayak
with a spray skirt attached, how do you answer the call of nature? ( ie.
urinate or defecate) I have never seen any mention of this potential
problem.
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> From: Wolfgang Brinck <wolfgang.brinck@hksystems.com>
> To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
> Subject: Re: [baidarka] roomier boats
> Date: Thursday, July 09, 1998 4:14 PM
>
> 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