Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:06:59 -0500
From: chall@totalsports.net (Charles Hall)
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: baidarka "PakYak"
MESSING ABOUT IN BOATS recently mentioned a very small foldable kayak
called a "PakYak". In contacting the designer I have gotten enough
information to build a web page here:
http://rtpnet.org/robroy/boats/PakYak
I asked him about how he covered the boats, and here's what he
responded:
Jim Heter writes:
>
> ... On my earlier PakYaks I could wrap
> one piece of 60" wide Cordura around the whole boat and fit it with
> just a couple of darts that barely go below the water line. On my
> new one I even did away with the darts and made two lengthwise
> seams, again not going below the water line. My trick of lining the
> skin with closed-cell foam helps smooth the hull lines, and I'm sure
> the nylon stretches better than the PVC so it doesn't have to be
> fitted as well. I put a lot of design thought into keeping things
> simple. As I mentioned before, with the closed cell foam layer I
> don't need a tough PVC hide to stay water-tight.
As more information about Jim's design becomes available, I'll update
the web page. There's also an article in an upcoming MAIB issue about a
"Pak Boat". We don't know if this is a typo, or a different craft, or
what.
-- Charles Hall Total Sports Raleigh, NC USA http://info.totalsports.net