Ahoy! I'm building a Pygmy Coho. Any suggestions? Does anybody paddle one now? George *************************************************************************** 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 05:28 AM 1/14/02 -0500, Mike O'Byrne wrote: >Ahoy! I'm building a Pygmy Coho. Any suggestions? Does anybody paddle one >now? George A friend of mine built one. It's a nice boat. What kinds of suggestions were you looking for? Since it was a generic request, the only thing I can suggest is that you take your time, pay attention to detail, and ask specific questions if you're not sure about a particular step. I'd also recommend the CLC building forum. While it's true that it's sponsored by Pygmy's primary competitor, it's a forum for people that are building or have built stitch-n-glue boats and the construction techniques are mostly the same. When I built my CLC boat (a Northbay XL) I found a lot of information through that BBS that wasn't in the manual which saved time or potential headaches. Sit down for a few hours and read through their archives and you'll find lots of useful information. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
> I'd also recommend the CLC building forum. Is there a similar forum somewhere for strip built canoes? Rick *************************************************************************** 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 03:45 PM 1/14/02 -0500, Rick.Sylvia_at_ferguson.com wrote: >> I'd also recommend the CLC building forum. > >Is there a similar forum somewhere for strip built canoes? I would definitely start at Nick Schade/Guillemot's http://www.kayakforum.com/ *************************************************************************** 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 04:29 PM 1/14/02 -0500, Kirk Olsen wrote: >At 03:45 PM 1/14/02 -0500, Rick.Sylvia_at_ferguson.com wrote: >>> I'd also recommend the CLC building forum. >> >>Is there a similar forum somewhere for strip built canoes? > >I would definitely start at Nick Schade/Guillemot's > >http://www.kayakforum.com/ Agreed. I hadn't realized that he had a new URL for his forum. It's gone through a few url changes over the past few years but the content has always been good. I should probably start reading it more myself as I recently started building a cedar strip kayak. One resource that I don't think I've ever seen mentioned, but has a lot of good information is the One Ocean Kayak site (OneOceanKayaks.com) *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
George wrote: >Ahoy! I'm building a Pygmy Coho. Any suggestions? Does anybody paddle one >now? George John Fereira wrote: >A friend of mine built one. It's a nice boat. >I'd also recommend the CLC building forum. And don't forget Nick Schade's kayak forum--the building bbs in particular: http://www.kayakforum.com/cgi-bin/Building/index.cgi The Coho is a nice boat. The knee brace kit is a good investment. Shawn Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
=20?= com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02011417074000.01360_at_compuzoo.exis.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Monday 14 January 2002 03:45 pm, you wrote: > > I'd also recommend the CLC building forum. > > Is there a similar forum somewhere for strip built canoes? > > Rick Rick, I live in Suffolk, 30 miles or so south of you. Two years ago I built a strip built kayak using a John Winters design and Nick Shade's book. The book was invaluable as was John's advice. There is information on several websites which was useful as well. I would have to check my records retrieve the URLs. If you are interested in a strip built boat I'd be happy to discuss what worked for me and what didn't. You are welcome to come see the final result, or perhaps we could get together and paddle one day. Richard *************************************************************************** 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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