Re: [Paddlewise] Your expertise needed again

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Cramer <cramer_at_coe.uga.edu>
To: Paddlewise <paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net>
Date: June 22, 1999 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Your expertise needed again


(SNIP)
>
>Those were glass boats, weren't they, John? The ones that aren't supposed
>to be subject to performance-impairing scratches?

Scratches hurt, even the recessed type that occur on FRP. They just hurt
less than the kind that protrude into the free stream.

>
>> >No question that glass hulls are prettier. Although it's rare to see
the
>> >multicolor effects that Perception and Dagger do in plastic done in
glass.
>>
>> Hmmm, some people would not consider that "better" aesthetically. :-)
>
>Point taken. Somebody must like it. Steve Scarborough, maybe.

And I do have to admit that they have done quite well selling those things.
Still.........

>>
>> As the Devil once said, "Pretty, but is it art?"
>
>Was he talking about kayaks?

If he wasn't he missed a good opportunity. :-)

Cheers,
John Winters
Redwing Designs
Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft
http://home.ican.net/~735769/

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