[Paddlewise] various: First Boat, Diamante, Scots, Stitch'n'glue, sailing

Bob denton wrote:


> Many Scots do not consider their country British!

Most Scots (myself included there) probably do think of themselves as
British as well as Scottish .... however, more important is that none of
them are English.

Re: the diamante manufactured in Canada, could this be the same boat
manufactured by Mega of surf kayak fame?

http://www.mega-kayaks.co.uk/

I've only paddled the mega diamante once, but its a really nice boat.

Talking or really nice boats (...ahem) I put a stitch and glue greenlander
I've been building for the last eight weeks in the water for the first time
last week. I'm going to call it 'harpoon' on account of its pointy and
dangerous ;-). I designed it to be a little different from available
production boats, for my use as a fast, responsive, very low volume day
trip/play boat. 19ft LOA, 20 inch max beam, lots of rocker. Very lively
puppy.  If anyone is interested I've put a couple of photos its first outing
up on the web at:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~ltu006/images/stitchnglue/

There was a short discussion & plea for information about sail rigs a wee
while ago. Best place for information is probably the kayaksailing list
(predominately multihull rigs and Mark Balogh's batwings) ande the Tasmanian
web sites. I've  put up some photos of my Tasmanian inspired rigs at:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~ltu006/images/kayaksailing/




Cheers

Colin

57º19'N  2º10'W

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