Subject: Re: [baidarka] finished!
From: James Mitchell (mariner@seanet.com)
Date: Sat Oct 06 2001 - 00:12:52 EDT
Good advice, Michael. I can say from experience on three hulls, though,
that increasing flair at the gunwale will do a LOT to increase secondary.
Adding 3/4" to both sides will give a much greater sense of stability and
have very little impact on the speed of the hull. Initial will still be
touchy, but you stand a much better chance of being able to hang it on a
gunwale. After awhile, as Wolf points out, you will learn to use that
feature to your advantage!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Camilleri" <branzmtc@branz.org.nz>
To: <baidarka@paddlewise.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:54 PM
Subject: RE: [baidarka] finished!
> Changing the hull profile or depth like some people have suggested is a
> drastic, one-way measure, with no certainty that the change will be
> worthwhile. I have been dithering for weeks about just moving the foot
brace
> on my new baidarka!
>
> Here is some lateral thinking...
>
> Some ballast low down, and getting your butt as low as possible are the
> first things to try.
>
> If you want to test out what changing the hull profile will do to the
> stability then I suggest you try strapping some long strips of foam, or
thin
> plastic pipe(s) (sealed at the ends) around about the waterline. This will
> be roughly equivalent to adding a hard chine to the hull at that point.
You
> can experiment with the amount of bouyancy, position, and fore/center/aft
> distribution. If this does what you want, then open up the skin on the
deck
> and insert foam strips as sponsons on top of the ribs/stringers to give a
> similar change in the hull bouyancy profile. The existing skin should
still
> close with perhaps only minor modification.
>
> IMO, the only thing that could be worse than having an unpaddleable kayak,
> is to then expend a whole lot of effort trying to fix it and STILL have an
> unpaddleable kayak...
>
> As a last resort, you might make a single bladed paddle, and attach an
> outrigger to the kayak - I seem to recall seeing somewhere a picture of
some
> Inuit children playing in such a kayak.
>
> Cheers!
> Michael Camilleri
>
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