Re: [Paddlewise] Farthest North's kayak

At 09:03 AM 01/05/2000 -0800, Dave Kruger wrote:
>Just finished reading Fridtjof Nansen's account of his three-year voyage
to the
>northern latitudes above Russia and Siberia. 
>The over-water parts of the journey, using skin-craft they made during the
>winter night aboard the Fram, will seem Rube Goldberg-ish to we
sophisticates: 
>paddles made from sledge runners, skin of cotton sailcloth, and "sail" of
>tent-silk.
>Dave Kruger
>Astoria, OR

Dave check out
http://www.friend.ly.net/user-homepages/d/dadadata/n_the/bamboo_kayak.html
for the kayak

Dana
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