On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Donald Schoengold wrote: > Does anyone out there have any experience paddling or building a skin > baidarka. I am going to Wooden Boat School this summer and building one > of Bruce Lemon's baidarkas. Just wondering what I am getting myself > into. Yup. I built an aluminum framed George Dyson design. You're getting yourself into 100+ hours of work (depending on what and how much Bruce does for you). It doesn't take much woodworking skill, or sewing skill to build one. It just takes time and patience. Doing the lashing and sewing can be very relaxing, sort of like a long run or paddle. You'll end up with a very nice boat. When you do build it be be sure you take lots of pictures of the frame. The frames are gorgeous. You are welcome to discuss them here, there's also a separate skin/frame mailing list with some fairly experienced builders. To subscribe to, or unsubscribe from, the baidarka mailing list simply send an email to majordomo_at_lists.intelenet.net with the following text in the body of the message: subscribe baidarka or unsubscribe baidarka kirk (the admin for the baidarka mailing list) *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Apr 12 1999 - 06:25:46 PDT
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