Re: [Paddlewise] Harvey Golden's Kayaks

Dave,
Thanks for the link. Harvey's page is very well done and thorough too! What 
a treasure this person is.

Interestingly, I was in Copenhagen two weeks ago, and I saw the Greenland 
kayaking display at the Danish National Museum. They have about a dozen 
boats on display, plus lots of paddles, harpoons, and all other sorts of 
paddling gear. Very impressive. Some of the boats that weren't East 
Greenland style seemed very poorly constructed however. Some seemed bent or 
warped or had just plain weird lines. It made me wonder if these boats were 
constructed after the smallpox epidemics had wiped out the true kayak 
artisans from the non-Greenlandic cultures, and hence these were not 
examples of the pinnacle of kayak design. Food for thought, I guess. In 
all, it was a spectacular display of kayaking history... there was one 
sealskin kayak in a "touch me" display. I also saw the Aleut boat that 
Harvey paddled down the Columbia river. It seemed more like a canoe than a 
kayak.

There was also a book for sale with extremely explicit instructions for 
constructing a Greenland kayak in the traditional method. Too bad it was in 
Danish, or I would have bought it.

Cheers,
Kevin


At 12:29 PM 11/2/00 -0800, Dave Kruger wrote:
>More than just pictures of the various replicas Harvey has made -- also
>includes pictorial essays of trips he has made, one to Baffin Island, and
>another down 800 miles of the Columbia River (source to Umatilla, OR):
>http://home.pacifier.com/~qayaq/index.htm
>
>--
>Dave Kruger
>Astoria, OR


Kevin Whilden
Your Planet Earth
http://www.yourplanetearth.org
(206) 788-0281 (ph)
(206) 788-0284 (f)


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