Subject: Re: [baidarka] FW: [buzz] old photo's
From: thomas-simpson (thomas-simpson@shaw.ca)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 03:08:08 EDT
From various sources 25" is the average beam . Their boats were heavy
, flat bottomed, slab sided without much flare, sometimes heavily
rockered rear of the cockpit. Harvey Golden has built a closely
related type from Ivuyivik and can be seen here <
http://home.pacifier.com/~qayaq/images/ivuyivikIII.jpg >
They seem to be ideally suited to traveling long distances
Douglas Huft wrote:
>I ran across these on a different list. (The poster recently carved a
>Greenland paddle that was much shorter). Apparently these folks from
>Labrador used much longer paddles. How beamy are these boats generally
>speaking.
>--Douglas Huft
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>BlankOld photo's of kayakers, A look at the last pic. If that is a paddle in
>his hand, I think we made our GP to short.
>;^) db
>http://www.kayakers.nf.ca/labradorinuitkayakphotos.html
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