On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Reeves, Debbie (Debbie) wrote: > To our good fortune, the baidarka > class had completed their boats and were scheduled to come and pick them up > by noon on that day. Wow, what a sight. There must have been at least 15 > boats all finished. These particular boats were not particularly light > because of all the wooden ribs, kelson, chines, etc. A lot of wood in > there. It all depends on how they are built. My aluminum and nylon baidarka (5.7 meters, roughly 18'6") came out at 34 pounds. A friend's greenland boats come out at 24 pounds (it's a 17 footer) and 28 pounds for his baidarka interpretation. The translucent skins are definitely cool looking on a sunny day. Varnish with aliphatic urethane yield the clearest coating combination that I've seen. A coating combination that is also quite rugged. kirk *************************************************************************** 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 - 08:24:56 PDT
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