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 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:18:04 +0100, Dr Colin Calder wrote: >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/ > breathtaking, lovely, gorgeous, brilliant, beautiful, fantastic, droolworthy, etc... um... will you please build me one of these right away? Thanks! Melissa *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Great photos. Congratulations on the launch of the stitch and glue, which looks a fine boat. "Launch.gif" is the only image not to load, of all the sailing and boat images listed. Is this a problem at my computer? What is the grey boat? Not, perchance a grey plastic Skerray? How did you go about stepping the mast? The paddling country looks great, sombre cliffs and sea birds. BTW, I had a towing-rolling-rescuing session last weekend, and worked on the capsize T rescue you have described. This works very well, and is far better than trying to lift a flooded boat across another, then empty. Thanks for your excellent suggestion. This technique needs a name, perhaps the "Calder Collapse", or "Colin's Capsize". I like this last, as the Australian Navy has been having a lot of trouble with Collins Class submarines lately. Regards, Peter Treby. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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