Subject: Re: baidarka Inuit boat plans - any firsthand experience?
From: Harvey Golden (qayaq@pacifier.com)
Date: Mon May 01 2000 - 11:27:11 EDT
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John Winters wrote:
>
> In any case, you must have a data base since these tests do not tell you
> anything about "good" and "bad". "Good' and "Bad" are human attributes
that
> we attach to things to rationalize our personal preferences.
[SNIP]
> Howard Chappele in The Bark and Skin Boats of North America" describes >
Fig 199 and 200 as
> "highly developed craft - stable, fast, and seaworthy.....". He must not
> have paddled them.
-- A fine example of how two individuals (Howard and John) with keen
scientific understandings of hydrodynamics still fall back on their human
attributes and attach things to rationalize their personal preferences. . .
and in doing so, completely disagree!
Guilty of it as anyone (though ever inexperienced),
Harvey
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