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From: "Wilky" <carrot@vision.net.au>
Subject: Re: [baidarka] Inexpensive boats.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 98 17:02:33 PDT
Hey I'll come and help. Ahhhhh any one got a spare plane (thats aero type plane) in their backyard that can come and pick me up. I'm only just south of Australia. It's not far realy guys.
Cheers
Wilky
"When I can't dream any longer I will die"
> WoW! What a terrific idea! You really ought to do it! Thinking of Craig's
> and other "messabouts", wouldn't that be a great place and occasion to
> congregate? Wouldn't take much sponsorship to pull off. With a little bit
> of experienced guidance in residence, I wonder how many people would want to
> come and build a boat? I know I would. Delightful idea and wonderful
> vision - don't give up on this one, Shawn. This could be one of those
> defining moments where you either find your way, or spend the rest of your
> life wondering what would have happened if you'd given it a shot.
>
> Gene Smith
> inspired in Houston...and from Buffalo! Who'd a thunk it?
>
> >Not far from where I live (Buffalo) there's a beach by the Small Boat
> >Harbor that is littered with some beautiful driftwood. Up from the beach,
> >by a restaurant that overlooks Lake Erie and the Niagara River, there's a
> >small grassy area.
> >
> >Here's the deal. For the ultimate cheapest and most traditional (though I
> >know this wasn't part of the challenge) baidarka I can imagine, a handful
> >of modern day baidarka builders set up camp on this grassy area.
> >Restaurant owners and city officials won't mind, as it will be a joint
> >educational project with the History and Science Museum: kids studying the
> >arctic in school will take field trips, and others may be drawn to the
> >underutilized harbor and lakefront.
> >
> >So, these baidarka builders arrive with tents, crooked knives, adzes,
> >needles, artificial sinew, small hardwood blocks for splitting wood, a
> >piece of canvas, etc. While some are carefully splitting driftwood logs
> >for gunwales and stringers, others will build a traditional rack for the
> >frame. Imagine tourists, kids, and owners of plastic cabin cruisers and
> >sailboats watching a group of "resourceful traditionalists" crouching
> >around a small fire, ladling boiling water over ribs.
> >
> >Anyway, I have thought of this scenario often as I pass the harbor. I once
> >read about Henry Vaillencourt's (subject of Survival of the Birchbark
> >Canoe) dream to wander into a forest and paddle out a week or two later in
> >a completed canoe made solely from resources found in the woods. I suppose
> >that would be the absolutely cheapest boat possible. But in all honesty, I
> >doubt I have what it takes to go through with such an "experiment." I
> >suspect I'd balk at ruining my teeth clamping and bending ribs!
> >
> >Shawn Goodman
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