Subject: Re: [baidarka] making kayak ribs
From: wolfgang brinck (nativewater@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Nov 18 2005 - 09:45:10 EST
--- Will Samson <willsamson@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Kayak builders can benefit by buying their willow branches from a
> commercial
> retailer - available in a number of diameters, including kayak-rib
> size.
One researcher in the history of boat development opined that the
most common boat in post-ice age Europe was probably the skin on
frame and not the dugout since the climate was still sub-arctic and
trees big enough for dugouts were in short supply or non-existent.
But skinny poles and branches like birch and willow were plentiful.
It is possible the coracle and curragh are survivors of that
tradition.
Wolfgang
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