From: Patrick Pierquet <ppierquet@teltech.com>
To: "'baidarka@lists.intelenet.net'" <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Subject: RE: [baidarka] Gunwale height
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:13:08 -0500
Hi Michael - Can you elaborate on your ABS coaming??? Sounds like an
interesting alternative!
- Patrick Pierquet
ppierquet@teltech.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael O'Flynn [SMTP:moflynn@sd23.bc.ca]
> Sent: Saturday, July 18, 1998 11:30 PM
> To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
> Subject: Re: [baidarka] Gunwale height
>
> Hi Chris.
>
> My "Putz style" hit the water this past week with no ill effect.
>
> It is skinned in 3.7 oz aircraft dacron (Ceconite - it cost $72.00
> Canadian
> for more than enough to do the whole craft). The dacron was
> surprisingly
> easy to work with, almost no wrinkles at all, even before
> heat-shrinking.
> Small puckers at the top longitudinal seam make it look kinda
> authentic
> (IMHO)
>
> I coated it with Flecto Outdoor Diamond Finish. The 3.79 litre tin
> ('merican gallon) was $60.00, and is enough to do 2 more 'yaks.
>
> The finish is water-based, and not designed for below the waterline,
> but I
> tested the stuff for several days submerged until I actually used it.
> I put
> on 5 coats (paranoia?), and it went well.
>
> The only toxicity issue I had is that I made my coaming out of ABS,
> and the
> solvent cement for it is deadly. I don't think I'll do it that way
> again,
> although it looks "bought".
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Kohut <chriskayak@earthlink.net>
> To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
> Date: Thursday, July 16, 1998 4:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [baidarka] Gunwale height
>
>
> >At the risk of inspiring incendiary missives, (INCOMMING!!!!) might
> I ask,
> if
> >there are skinning materials such as nylon out there,(which I found
> to be
> >fairly easy to work with), what are the properties and advantages of
> choosing
> >#10 canvas? Or are there better skinning materials than the two
> mentioned?
> >Or is this part of the great Vanilla/Chocolate debate?
> > Chris
> >David Baranoski wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Wolfgang Brinck wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have built baidarkas using white pine for gunwales (1.75") and
> none
> of
> >> > them has broken, but I think white pine is less elastic than some
> other
> >> > woods and in time can take a set or warp more easily than stiffer
> more
> >> > elastic lumber species.
> >> >
> >> > An extra quarter inch (2" gunwale) should be sufficient since
> stiffness
> >> > goes up with the cube of the height - if you do the math, you
> will find
> >> > that adding a quarter inch will increase stiffness by 50%, adding
> 1/8th
> >> > inch will increase stiffness by 22%, so have at it.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Wolfgang,
> >>
> >> I'll go ahead with using 2 inches for the gunwales. Lake Ontario
> can get
> >> up there sometimes, and the white pine/stiffness question hit my
> paranoia
> >> button. I'll sleep better at night now. I think I'll stay away from
> the
> >> archives for a while...just sourced a local supplier of #10 canvas
> duck,
> >> and I don't want to see that you've been advocating nylon :)
> >>
> >> Thanks for the reply; and I'll apologize for getting your book a
> little
> >> dog-eared.
> >>
> >> David Baranoski
> >> Thorold, Ontario
> >> Canada
> >
> >
> >