Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 20:42:41 -0500
From: "Carl R. Jerls" <carlrjerls@home.com>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: [baidarka] roomier boats
Get out of the boat with a little help from a friend.
Ted Gallo wrote:
> 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.
>
> ----------
> > 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