Subject: Re: baidarka Phil's phat boat
From: James Mitchell (mariner@seanet.com)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2000 - 23:01:11 EST
You must be married, Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Burkhart and Reg Lake" <baidarkas@home.com>
To: <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: baidarka Phil's phat boat
> Hi Phil:
>
> Just an idea ... To make sure that you get the boat best suited to your
> needs, you might borrow or rent some different boats and try them out.
(You
> can have a lot of fun and "justify" it to people who would like you to do
> stuff like work or fixing that danged garage door, etc.)
>
> :-) Chris
>
>
> >I am not dumb. but I lack a lot of building experience since I have only
> built
> >one baidarka. thaks for the reassurance.
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> >Phil Sharp
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> >SeaCaller
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> >----- Original Message -----
> >
> >
> >From: kyak@rockisland.com
> >
> >
> >Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 11:32 AM
> >
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> >To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
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> >Subject: baidarka Phil's phat boat
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> >The whole "long/narrow" thing is vastly over-rated unless speed is your
> only
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> >desire. as long as you watch deck geometry (rim height (from keel), size
> >
> >
> >etc) you can go out to 24-27, probably even 28 inches and still have a
boat
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> >
> >that is not difficult to double paddle. At 15' x 25" you have lots of
> >
> >
> >stability & respectable overall weight As for "big cockpits" they sure
are
> >
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> >comfortable! Hazardous? That's what spray decks are for.
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> >It sounds as if you know what you want, so I say go for it.
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> >you wrote:
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> >>I am still wrestling with the design of that main station. Having
paddled
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> >>only wide Folbots, I am not too worried about it being a hard boat to
> paddle
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> >>even if I make it 24 or even 28 inches. That is still much better than
> 34"!
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> >>It may be sluggish to many here, but so much easier than what I have
done.
> >It
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> >>could then be about 15 to 17 feet long by 24 to 28 inches wide, provide
a
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> >>wide, long cockpit so fishing gear could be easily used, and still be
> rather
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> >>light (my 17 footer I am using weighs 62 lbs empty). It isn't going to
be
> a
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> >>speed demon and it won't be as easy to use as the baidarka designs can
be.
> A
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> >>native of years ago would gag looking at it. All that aside, it would
do
> its
> >
> >>job admirably I think, and that is exactly what the originals did too.
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> >Visit Kayak Way:
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> >http://www.rockisland.com/~kyak
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