Subject: Re: [baidarka] finished!
From: kirk olsen (kolsen@imaginelan.com)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2001 - 11:19:41 EDT
At 09:40 PM 10/2/01 -0400, Kcorkey@aol.com wrote:
>I'm all for not too stable, but I'm pretty sure that the boat is supposed to stay upright
> if you don't move a muscle!
I would not use that as a benchmark. I've paddled boats that I can't keep upright without a paddle in the water. I've gotten accustomed to 2 of my boats that I used to need to keep a blade in the water at all times. One is still touchy. With my 17" beam surf ski I'm now comfortable enough in that in flat water I can take off my pfd and coat, then put the pfd back on, without rafting up. While that may not seem like much of a feat it took me 2 years to get that level of balance and comfort. I don't think I can do the same garment change in my 19" beam Dyson 5.7 baidarka, with the seat in.
>I agree, it will be a challange to paddle but worth the effort.
>It's not the Mae-593-76, but it's very close. Zimmerly's got it marked on his plans as simply the Mae-AC. I looked at the plans for the -76 online and concluded that my wrong turn was that I forgot the sea otter that I was supposed to carve into the front stantion.
I just spent a little while comparing them, cross sections and depth to sheer. You are quite right, they are very similar.
> It could also have something to do with the bog lemming hair. I couldn't find a bog
>lemming so I used muskrat (it's just a bigger version right?).
Geez a lowly muskrat? You might as well have used squirrel.
> Someone was talking
>about incantations at one point, I was wondering if they had a few to spare?
That's definitely what you are missing. A little of the magic ;-)
kirk
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