>WARD EVENS ATLANTIC ROWING CHALLENGE > >As of Sunday Oct 7th 36 double handed teams representing 11 countries will >set off from Tenerife to Barbados ... 2,900 miles across the Atlantic for the >world's only ocean rowing race! www.telecomchallenge.co.nz/v2page.html This is the page about the New Zealand entry. Looks like the previous winner won't be able to row due to injury - typical NZer doing peace keeping duty..... His rowing mate from the first race died in a plane crash. Note also there are 2 NZ crews and boats. The US entry - don't know how it would be possible to put together one of those boats in such a way that it couldn't be used - maybe they should have found a wooden kayak builder to do it for them. Alex . . *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
>At 2:35 PM +1200 10/2/01, Alex Ferguson wrote: >The US entry - don't know how it would be possible to put together >one of those boats in such a way that it couldn't be used - maybe >they should have found a wooden kayak builder to do it for them. > They hired a well respected wooden boat builder in the area (this area of the states has lots). Even though the kit is fairly brainless to put together, he somehow assembled it with a severe twist. He made the finished product straight with liberal use of filler. This made the boat heavier and less efficiently shaped. I would think the result would have been serviceable, but Tom and John didn't like the idea of rowing a defective boat all the way across the Atlantic so they opted to build a new one. Nick -- Nick Schade Guillemot Kayaks 824 Thompson St Glastonbury, CT 06033 (860) 659-8847 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
>>At 2:35 PM +1200 10/2/01, Alex Ferguson wrote: >>The US entry - don't know how it would be possible to put together one of >>those boats in such a way that it couldn't be used - maybe they should >>have found a wooden kayak builder to do it for them. >[Nick Schade] >They hired a well respected wooden boat builder in the area (this area of >the States has lots). Even though the kit is fairly brainless to put >together, he somehow assembled it with a severe twist. Severe twist!!! Presumably now a LESS well respected builder? As any kayak builder knows, getting it straight is the name of the game and S&T usually "falls" into place. Alex . . *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 10:59 AM +1200 10/3/01, Alex Ferguson wrote: >>>At 2:35 PM +1200 10/2/01, Alex Ferguson wrote: >>>The US entry - don't know how it would be possible to put together >>>one of those boats in such a way that it couldn't be used - maybe >>>they should have found a wooden kayak builder to do it for them. >>[Nick Schade] >>They hired a well respected wooden boat builder in the area (this >>area of the States has lots). Even though the kit is fairly >>brainless to put together, he somehow assembled it with a severe >>twist. > >Severe twist!!! Presumably now a LESS well respected builder? As any >kayak builder knows, getting it straight is the name of the game and >S&T usually "falls" into place. > Yea, the builder must have assumed it would just fall into place and didn't bother to check before gluing everything together. No matter how easy the project appears, you do at least want to double check. He didn't until it was too late. -- Nick Schade Guillemot Kayaks 824 Thompson St Glastonbury, CT 06033 (860) 659-8847 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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