Subject: Re: baidarka Inuit boat plans - any firsthand experience?
From: wolfgang brinck (nativewater@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 14:51:07 EDT
One thing I don't have a choice in when I build a boat
is the powerplant. That is always me. I can't just
blithely build a boat and then pick the ideal rig to
propel it. I am the rig, a low horsepower rig at
that.
So, given the limited horsepower engine, the limited
parameters of a given design, let's say a Greenland
replica more or less, what I'm really interested in is
questions like, how much will an extra inch of beam
slow me down, or given that I may want to paddle 10
miles, how much longer will it take me if I add an
extra inch of beam. And if I can get the speed loss
back by painting the boat red, then I might go ahead
and make it an inch wider for comfort.
Wolfgang
>
> Putting the worlds greatest paddler in a poor boat
> does not make that boat
> wonderful nor does putting the world's most
> incompetent paddler in the
> world's greatest boat make it a water pig.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John Winters
> Redwing Designs
> Web site address, http://home.ican.net/~735769
>
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