Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:33:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: wolfgang brinck <nativewater@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: baidarka traditional paddles
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
--- George Dyson <gdyson@cc.wwu.edu> wrote:
> Brinck:
Tom Hansen, DVM, assisted Joseph
> Lubischer with a complete
> radiographic (x-ray) survey of this remarkable
> specimen, revealing internal
> bone joints, baleen lashings thoughout, a
> full-length baleen strip along
> the top of the keelson, and many other interesting
> and puzzling things.
Before I re-skinned my long Leningrad replica, I ran
two lengths of poly cord alondside the top of the
keelson with the idea of adding some longitudinal
tension to the boat in hopes of making it stiffer.
I mentioned this to someone and they said, oh yeah,
people used to run ropes the length of certain wooden
ships. I forget the name of this nautical device, but
apparently, it was a common device to contol the
flexing of the wooden hull.
Wolfgang
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