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. *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Sep 18 2002 - 13:08:52 PDT
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