Subject: Re: baidarka Evil Gunwales ?
From: wolfgang brinck (nativewater@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2000 - 10:27:50 EST
I had one boat do that to me. I tried clamping the
whole thing to the sawhorses while I put in ribs,
hoping that the ribs would hold the gunwales in place,
but when I took the clamps off, it was back to
twisted.
But the boat paddles ok. Keep in mind that even with
a slightly warped deck, you can still have a true
hull. As long as you have a straight keelson and more
or less symmetrical ribs, your boat will paddle ok.
Wolf
--- LedJube@aol.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm still building, . . er . . hoping to start
> this North Alaskan
> Recovery Kayak, but the gunwales appear to twist
> when they're sprung into the
> braces by about 3/8's of an inch. So that the bow
> and stern blocks would be
> askew to one another or the gunwale height on the
> end blocks would be
> different from side to side. It seems (to this
> novice) that the pieces have
> varying torsional stiffness along there length,
> because the flare angles
> don't match. I have shimmed them to force the flare
> but will this haunt me
> for the life of this boat? They looked pretty good
> before they were sprung,
> enough so that I cut the rib mortises. Is this
> something I can massage into
> place or do I find another use for these pieces and
> stop calling them
> gunwales?
>
> The two were cut from one 1x8 of pine. I have
> just recently read
> Wolfgang's advise regarding gunwale selection and
> how best to obtain them.
> Thanks in advance for your responses.
>
> Jed Luby
> Goffstown, NH
>
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