Re: [Paddlewise] Perfect Boat is Plastic! Now Flex

From: <Strosaker_at_aol.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 19:00:30 EST
Shatterglassers,

It is funny how in the world of skin boats (baidarkas and greenlanders), flex 
is praised for increasing speed and seaworthiness, but when it comes to flex 
in a plastic boat, the shatterglassers complain about it reducing 
performance.  I've built a greenlander skin boat, and the amount of flex (bow 
to stern) is about the same in it as with my plastic kayaks.  What do the 
shatterglassers have to say about that?

Duane Strosaker
Paddling Everything From
Skin Boats to Plastic
in Southern California
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