Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 08:15:47 -0800 (PST)
From: wolfgang brinck <nativewater@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: baidarka lashing versus pegging
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
---Ranald Gault <gaultr@cadvision.com> wrote:
>
> "True to Oyukuluk's own experience, the frames deck beams
> were initially secured to the gunwales with screws. Knowing
> that the kayak was being built for a museum context,
> however, Oyukuluk and Simon [his apprentice] acknowledged
> that the use of nails and screws was not in keeping with
> earlier Tununirusirmiut ways. Consequently, the hardware was
> removed and the joins were resecured with sealskin rope.
> While performing the tedious task of cutting a sealskin
> Oyukuluk exclaimed with a smile: "I'd rather use nails!" In
> the end, the frame was completely lashed with sealskin rope
> or pegged with wooden dowels. Oyukuluk, therefore, directed
> the construction of a kayak that, at least in this detail,
> was more germane to his grandfather's day."
>
> Practical folks, the Inuit.
>
> - Ranald
>
>From what I have seen of traditional kayaks that used nails, the nails
definitely shortened the life of the kayak's frame. However, as this
story points out, the inconvenience of an earlier demise of the kayak
due to the use of nails may have been less than the inconvenience of
relashing the kayak every few years with sealskin.
Practical folks, the Inuit.
Wolfgang
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