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From: dick van Zanten (d.zanten@hccnet.nl)
Date: Fri Oct 17 2003 - 09:55:49 EDT
Hi Joey,
Shure thats possible! Just have a look at the open canoes as built at the brewery creek smallboat shop, www.brewerycreek.ca. You'll be amazed at the
flexibility of SOF construction. Good uck,
Dick
>Just beginning research on building SOF and found this lovely site and
>mailing list. Great info here.
>
>I have a quick question about building a boat with an "open" two person
>cockpit. Is this feasible? I was planning on building my daughter her
>own boat, but her mother isn't comfortable with that just yet. So I
>was thinking about whether or not it would be worth the effort to try a
>large cockpit in a traditional style boat or if it would just not work
>performance wise. I'm assuming it would need to be slightly wider than
>you would normally design and obviously a longish boat but probably not
>ridiculously long. Anyway, like I said, I'm just beginning my research
>so if anyone can point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it.
>I'm planning an getting a couple of the books listed on the web site
>but any online specs or suggestions would be great in the mean time.
>
>Thanks
>
>Joey
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