Nick wrote: snip > Early British sea kayaks were essentially knock-offs of Inuit designs. snip > It is possible that British boats will evolve a more plumb bow, snip Not so sure about your definition of early. Rob Roy canoes, PBK's, etc spring to mind. 'Early' British sea kayaks were beamy boats, with high decks and plumb bows, and were used to make some impressive sea trips. It wasn't really until the 70's/80's that sea paddlers started to 'knock-off' (I prefer admire ;-) Inuit designs, and the current commercial Inuit derived crop of boats appeared. There are/were however a number of designs (skua, sea tiger for example) that a lot of folk still paddle today that essentially are shorter, wider, high decked, plumb bowed boats. Maybe so called 'British' boats may 'revolve' back to a more plumb bow ;-) Cheers Colin Calder 57º19'N 2º10'W *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jul 28 1999 - 03:01:46 PDT
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