jack martin wrote: > > > Which leads me to ask you, fellow PaddleWisers, what would > > <you> do if someone trashed your boat by accident and gave you > > the replacement cost? Would you buy what you've got now or > > something else. And why? < If I had a chance to get another boat (other than my Nautiraid Raid 1, Feathercraft K-Light, Klepper double), I would probably want to do something that can't be done, i.e. go into the past some. If I had my time machine, I would like to go back to 1926 and get an Aijuk Falboot Gronland (Greenlander), which is the folding kayak that Edi Pawlata bought and learned to roll in, reintroducing the Eskimo roll to the Western world in 1927 (still bears his name). The kayak had an 18 inch beam and was 16 feet long with quite an upswept bow. Was very light( it had lightening holes in the bow and stern wooden frame pieces), a dink-sized, slightly ovalized cockpit, and it dipped a bit in the frame at the stern to create, in effect, a skeg (the Khatsalano from Feathercraft does something similar). It is pictured in Der Handernkahn, Geschichte des Faltbootes (Ragboats, the History of Folding Kayaks) and I believe it is the one at the Deutsches Museum in Munich on the wall above Dr. Lindemann's trans-Atlantic double Klepper. This greenland boat would be tippy as hell but would be a real incentive to do something about my lack of a roll. But another choice, which would not require a time machine, is to get my hands on the Nautiraid Greenlander either circa 1988 or circa 1992. The 1980s one was the same dimensions as Pawlata's folding kayak and also quite tippy, so much so that they couldn't sell it and then had to come out with the early 1990s one. It had a 23 inch beam similar to what we have in the Khatsalano. That Nautiraid was more conventional looking with no upswept bow. The Nautiraid Greenlander is out again now but with a 27 inch beam and a largish cockpit; it is not a greenlander like Pawlata's boat or the earlier Nautiraid versions. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Mar 11 1999 - 05:30:36 PST
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