Subject: Re: [baidarka] Good cheap wood
From: Peter Chopelas (pac@premier1.net)
Date: Mon Oct 04 2004 - 22:04:26 EDT
Patric wrote:
> I live 10 minutes from a three
> cedar mills in lower British Columbia. Does anyone want 23 ft lengths
> of green, clear yellow cedar, rough or nominal?
What part of BC? I live about 1.5 hours south of the border and get up that
way every once in a while. I would be happy to take whatever yellow cedar
you have off your hands, kind of rare and pricy around here in western WA.
I found it works really great for rib stock, even better than bending oak.
Light and rot resistant too! I love it. I am just finishing a play boat
out of all red ceder, with yellow cedar ribs: 12' 6" x 21". I wonder how
the yellow cedar works for coaming?
> BTW, I have read somewhere that the bifid badarka bows [nice
> alliteration there] results in a pretty hollow shape to the bow which
> assists in climbing over waves. Has anyone tried sewing a line of
> stitches to somehow duplicate this flared bow? Has anyone seen any
> bifid canoes?
>
Bill Low of Willow Kayaks does this, he has a web site with pictures. He
says it work as well, and is stronger and easier to stich. I am not sure
how useful it would be in a canoe, without a deck when you punch through
waves you would fill and swamp the boat before it can rise up out of the
wave. I would think the idea with a canoe, as a big cargo hauler, is that
there is enough volume in the bow to keep it up out of the water. If you
build a hybred, a narrower canoe with a fore deck it would probably work
well.
> And theres only been one flame war in that time.
now, now, it did not quite degenerate that level...yet.
Peter
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