In a message dated 9/12/2002 10:20:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com writes: > RalphD: ... I once was bantering with Andy Zimmermann former owner of > Wilderness Systems who regularly kidded me about folding kayaks (not the > only one see note on Lee Moyer of Pacific Water Sports below). I pointed > out how the skin of a folding kayak might make a nice camping hammock upon > which Andy looked at the frame and immediately exclaimed "firewood!" ... RalphH: "Der Hadernkahn" illustrates some very (!) twentieth century early folding boats, which lacked a certain longitudinal stiffness, especially when they got older and the natural-fiber skin substrates stretched. "Floating Hammocks" was the common term for boats like that ... the book also contains pictures of "firewood" resulting from overly ambitions white water runs! I guess that's sort of like the pictures of aluminium canoes getting wrapped around boulders and trees. Of course you wouldn't expect pictures of crushed and/or ripped-up plastic boats, unless someone dove for them on the river bottom ... (ducking the hardshell flames :-) Best regards, Ralph Ralph_at_PouchBoats.com www.PouchBoats.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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Sep 12 2002 - 12:12:54 PDT
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