Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980726222600.006ab8e4@eagle.ptialaska.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 14:26:00 -0800
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: DrDuktayp <bajabug@eagle.ptialaska.net>
Subject: Re: [baidarka] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
At 08:02 AM 7/26/98 -0700, you wrote:
> Some Construction details
>
>The boat is principally framed in yellow cedar for longitudinals. Most of
>the deck beams. the lower bow and the stern post were all gotten out of
>knees and grown stock. These woods included Golden locust, apple, fir and
>cedar Ribbing is local willow, about 3" o.c. midships, 6 " in the ends.
>Covering was 8 oz nylon as a test of that material, with UA-75 for
>waterproofing. For the circular cockpit I used a dead bicycle Rim (25") in
>combo with some oak and willow. Made a real strong coaming, but didn't save
>anytime. Looks cool tho, and always brings a smile to the eco-crowd's face
>due to it's totally PC recycling effort.
> skip
Do you have any pics? I would love to see this boat.
DrDuktayp
"There is nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats." Kenneth Grahame