Subject: Re: [baidarka] making kayak ribs
From: Dick van Zanten (d.zanten@hccnet.nl)
Date: Fri Nov 18 2005 - 11:04:09 EST
HI Bruce,
I would love to see those pics! I'm allways intrigued by stone-age and
prehistoric construction and techniques.
Dick van Zanten
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Subject: Re: [baidarka] making kayak ribs
> Perhaps true but I know a builder here in Stuttgart, Germany that is
> building replications of a stoneage skin on frame that dates back around
> 9,000
> -10,500 years ago. He calls it the Flintstone.
>
> The original had two main frames made of reindeer antler and the
> stringers
> and gunnels from hazelnut or willow. This is all covered with reindeer
> hide.
> The boat is about 2 meters long. This is all theory as to material for
> the
> stringers however hazel was one of the most popular trees of the ice age
> era
> in northern europe and is very tensil. It could have been willow as
> well.
> As I said it is all theory.
>
> The peice of antler was found in the Husum harbor in 1882. The original
> prototyp was built by Deitrich Evers. It was not until 1980 that Evers
> made his
> discovery with the aid of Skandinavian cave paintings he was studying.
> If
> you would like some pictures I will gladly send them.
>
> Bruce
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