Subject: RE: baidarka stability/performance vs. flexibility
From: Peter A. Chopelas (pac@premier1.net)
Date: Fri Dec 22 2000 - 19:30:28 EST
Chuck wrote:
> the keel is as rigid as a single piece of wood. Of course, he
> probably uses jute. I wonder if leather doesn't stretch more -- anyone
know?
There is a short segment in the documentary "Nanook of the North" where
Nanook and his wife are lashing and stretching skins over the frame of a
kayak. The leather looked like a thin sheet of rubber as used on a toy
balloon, quite flexible and stretchy. It is difficult to imagine that it
adds any stiffness to the frame at all, very unlike the nylon or polyester
fabric we use now.
Peter
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