Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 06:11:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Ve Smith <ve_hengda_smith@yahoo.com>
Subject: baidarka carving in s
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Everybody knows how clever the Aleuts were in figuring out how to
build boats with narrow water lines but high volume top sides, which
not only makes them rise to waves easily, but also (although it seems
to have been of no interest to the Aleuts)makes them easy to roll. And
I don't want to be a complainer, I know that it's seldom possible to
optimize all the desirable characteristics of an engineered object,
but I was in a pool last week working with a guy in an anas acuta and
couldn't help noticing that when he leaned a little, his boat turned
as if it had seen a snake in the water. I can lean until the gunwale's
under, and not much of anything happens except a display of the boat's
amazing secondary stability.
Looking at the shape of the boat, I can see why this is-it's has just
about the same underwater shape leaned as it does straight up. What I
want to know is, are all baidarkas like this? Did I build a bum boat?
Is there a way to fix this without giving up the baidarka's other
sterling characteristics?
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