From: vdoucett@uism.bu.edu
Message-Id: <9909079367.AA936707847@uism.bu.edu>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 08:44:57 -0400
To: <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Subject: baidarka Re[2]: wear
Wolfgang,
Have you ever asked John Heath how it was his interest in skin boats came
about? He relates a story that as a child in Texas he stuck his head into a
barnstormer's biplane and was fascinated by its skin on frame structure. This
somehow led his interest in Northern skin on frame craft. Perhaps we all owe
that anonymous fair hopping pilot a nod of thanks and what goes around seem's to
come around.
Vernon
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Subject: Re: baidarka wear
From: <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net> at smtpout
Date: 9/5/99 7:54 PM
--- James Mitchell <mariner@seanet.com> wrote:
Imagine a single
> piece of aluminum over 100
> feet long, being toleranced down to the width of a
> human hair. Now put 2000
> fasteners into it (some rivets, more often Huck
> bolts), each one squishing
> the hole a teeny bit wider than it was. Your spar
> has now grown nearly an
> inch. Now change the temp in the room... open the
> door in Februray. Where
> is that "human hair" now? See the problem?
>
I saw a show on TV a few years back about some early
plane and was amazed at the similarity in the
construction process to skin on frame boats.
There are some subtleties to boat construction - not
as subtle as planes perhaps but the nature of the
lashings, interaction between skin and frame and
things of that sort which all contribute to the
performance of a boat. That's what keeps me building:
the prospect of subtly better boats.
Wolfgang
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