Re: [Paddlewise] fiberglass

Hi

Many thanks to you Matt and the other paddlewisers who answered
my question. It's a relief that I can expect my fiberglass kayak,
really to be, fibreglass.

Now to answer your questions:
> I don't know about Australia if that is where you are from (is that what the
> "au" means in your address?--how about the "dk" does it stand for Denmark or
> something?).

The .dk means Denmark and the au is the name of my university. We have
no sea-kayak production in this country. Most fiberglass sea-kayaks
paddled here comes from England, Sweden or Finland. 

> Who is the builder? Does he have a company name yet? Has he built a kayak
> yet? Got any dimensions of it you could send me?
> 
His name is Keld Jensen and he lives in Stockholm/Sweden. I don't
know the name of his company. His email address is k.jensen_at_telia.com.
He's building traditional Greenland kayaks and paddles(not all too
traditional perhaps - one of the paddles he brought was a feathered
"traditional" paddle). To my surprise, he demonstrated the strength
of his paddle, by apparently using all his force to bend it against
my floor. Had that been my fiberglass paddle, it would no doubt have
broken. He brought some large construction drawings of the to-be 
fiberglass kayak, which a person like me, without any crafting skill,
really can't comment on. However one thing I liked, was the way he
planned to shape the stern. Cut off the peak and have the deck
slope down:

 /---- <-stern  bow-> ----/
/------------------------/

The idea is to maximise length of waterline, while keeping
wind-effect to a minimum.

I'll mail Keld now - partly to bug him with these reactions to
his claims about normal sea-kayak production methods, and partly
to see if he will share the shape/dimensions with us.

As a final note, I should say that I'm not in any way related with
his business, and besides his prices are beyond the limits of this
grad-student.

 best regards
  Peter
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