From: dldecker@se.mediaone.net
Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19990910084929.028078d0@pop.jacksonville.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 08:49:29 -0400
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: baidarka fish-form/swede-form
In-Reply-To: <37D8F5D6.D8A9B364@earthlink.net>
I have wondered about this, if some one came to you wanting to buy a kayak
to take to another country and you will never see him again and he is
offering beads and trinkets would you sell him your best boat that your
life depended on using or the old piece of crap out back. Hum, what a
decision.
Dana
At 08:13 AM 9/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
>.....yeah, what if the collectors got the boats that were
unloved.......which
>were not stored up high so the dogs wouldn't eat them......and which even the
>dogs wouldn't eat?
> I worry about this stuff......
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>Mark Starr wrote:
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>> I have just finished drawing a Labrador kayak from the Peabody Museum in
>> Essex ,MA. It was collected, I believe, in 1867. It is a fish-form boat,
>> and I was wondering if this is unusual. Looking through Adney/Chapelle
>> didn't give me enough examples to determine one way or another. As a
>> paddler, it doesn't seem as though it would behave as well as a Swede- form
>> boat. It also led me to wonder, once again, did the people collecting get
>> the boats no one wanted anyway, or did they get the best boats? Any help
>> with the question on historic shape would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>> Mark Starr
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