Ferdinand Soethe wrote: > > Zur Nachricht vom 22. Jun 00 16:16 > > > extremely well; the frame inside the skin is very solid. Arguably, the > > Nautiraid frame system and its external sponsons make for just about the > > stiffest of folding kayaks. If you lift a Nautiraid at one end while > > It also seems to have quite some inbuild redundacy. Once we only noticed a broken > brass bolt holding a major longitudinal rib to the bow when we took the kayak > apart and the broken pieces fell out before that it was still completely stable. That is true of just about all folding kayaks, the built-in redundancy. Lately when I give talks on folding kayaks, I tell stories on myself about times when I failed to properly connect a piece or two and the boat was still fine. One notable time it was caught on a TV feature show that had me taking a K-Light from my apartment in Manhattan, going down to my car parked in front of my building (only in movies and in TV shoots do you see that!) and join friends for a paddle in Connecticut. While repeating some assembly steps for the camera, I wound up leaving one part totally disconnected. When out on the water, I noticed it but couldn't fix it while underway. The boat sagged a bit on one side (the failed connection was of the starboard gunwale bar). I forever see that when I show the video and I have been razed in a friendly way by the folk at Feathercraft. ralph diaz > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Jun 23 2000 - 06:03:46 PDT
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