Subject: Re: [baidarka] baidarka speeds
From: kschmidt (kschmidt@akutan.aesd.schoolaccess.net)
Date: Mon Oct 04 2004 - 19:46:22 EDT
I am most embarrassed... we bought clear and free Sitka Spruce from
British Columbia the shipping was donated...we paid $12 US per board
foot... the performance of the wood seemed worth the expense.... I
think?
Wolf - I just ordered more white oak to put the ribs in that boat...
will work nightly toward completion once the rib wood arrives.
Kurt
> >>> $1.85 for a 2X4?! I just paid $3.46 yesterday! I was robbed! ;-)
>
>
>I'm almost embarrassed to say that I paid $2.50US per linear foot for clear
>cedar 2 X 4's last week. That's a $20.00+ paddle. Then again, I used an 8"
>section of scrap fiberglass paddle shaft as a breakdown ferrule vs the cost
>of a commercial 2-part CF ferrule at $38.00. Yikes !
>
>http://yostwerks.com/AP1.jpg
>
>
>Tom
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