From: RCH3149@aol.com
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:08:12 EDT
Subject: Re: baidarka off topic
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
In a message dated 99-10-19 14:27:49 EDT, you write:
<< Subj: Re: baidarka paddle construction links
Date: 99-10-19 14:27:49 EDT
From: redcanoe@pangea.ca (Douglas Ingram)
...
But if process is important for you, and you can learn something along the
way, Oh how much richer you will be after having travelled the hard path!
Douglas Ingram >>
Douglas, I agree. Besides sipping "Red Oak 2x4" (that's a great beer, by the
way; strong, rich taste; deep, red body), I've been building boats since I
was 14. Constructing two early Glass Reinforced Polyester kayaks taught me
never to do that again (see, I'm not so smart, it took two boats to learn,
but then selling the second paid for the materials for both -- vital feature
back then). Stretching the heavy duty vinyl skin over the far-too-heavy pine
frame of my next effort almost stripped all the skin off my knuckles (a
stable, indestructible boat resulted nonetheless). A more recent (three
sectioned) round bottomed plywood kayak turned out very nice indeed, but the
building process can't exactly be described as organic. In some ways I wish I
had come across baidarkas much earlier, but then the path travelled would not
have been so hard, therefore the learning not so rich and my appreciation for
the topic of this forum far less deep -- a special appreciation in my current
state as mere voyeur, until I overcome the threshold and begin a new building
project. May all contributors take this as a "thank you" for keeping this
list alive and ongoing.
Ralph Hoehn
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