To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: Bram van der Sluys <bvdsluys@direct.ca>
Subject: Re: [baidarka] Ikyak building class in October
Message-Id: <E0ywJkf-0000cI-00@jack.direct.ca>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 22:05:14 -0700
At 10:41 PM 14/07/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I just came across this item in the Seattle Center for Wooden Boats
>newsletter. (Ikyak??)
>
>October 3-11 IKYAK (Aleutian-Inuit kayak) WORKSHOP
>
>FEE: $900. 9am-5pm, CWB Pavilion. INSTRUCTOR: Corey Freedman. This
>kayak, most popularly known as a baidarka, is a different and more
>complicated construction than the Greenland Inuit type. Each student
>will build his or her own boat. Corey Freedman is owner-operator of
>Spirit Line Kayaks in Anacortes. Limited to 4 students.
>
>--
>Charles Hall
>National Small Boat Calendar
>http://rtpnet.org/robroy/nsbc/index.phtml
>
Read George Dyson's book Baidarka, the indigenous peoples of the arctic had
many variations on the word "kayak".
Bram