Kev wrote: If this is true, then why did the Aleut Eskimos build boats with multi-chine hulls? I would suggest they may have thought multi-chine hulls were better than rounded hulls, and I don't believe for a second that they didn't have the technology to build a smoothly rounded hull. I am of the opinion that they arrived on their classic baidairka design after centuries of rigorous testing that would rival anything that we do today. Note that I am not saying necessarily that multi-chine hulls are more efficient than rounded hulls, but I am saying that they might be better in an overall sense. <unsnip> I'm not sure how valuable centuries of rigorous testing are when results are passed from generation to generation verbally, and accurate means of measurement are lacking. Seems to me the tendency would be not to fiddle for minor changes in performance if you had something that worked well. They had to paddle to eat, unlike the boatwrights on this list who are fabulously wealthy and can afford to tinker. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Dec 09 1999 - 10:10:15 PST
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