Re: [Paddlewise] Switching paddle

From: Kirk Olsen <kolsen_at_imaginelan.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:07:27 -0400
At 10:33 AM 9/18/2002 -0700, knelson_at_captivasoftware.com wrote:
>Or the fact that good tools last many generations performing their tasks
>as perfectly as he who wields the tool.
>
>Boats such as  the currachs have been used in Ireland for centuries and to
>visit North America (St. Brendan). Has anyone even built an SOF with a
>tarred skin? I know that's heresy in the day of chemical coatings etc. but
>it's hardly more so than house paint currently used in even in Greeenland.

A few years back Sandy Boyd sent me a couple corracle pictures 
http://home.attbi.com/~jkolsen/html/corracle.html the boats look
tarred...  Don't bother try to follow the links once on that site, the 
server changed, and I haven't fixed the link paths.

I believe there's a couple currachs in Wichita Kansas that are tarred, the 
builder
is/was on the baidarka mailing list.
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