Because, like wooden boat builders, GP users tend to assign a higher aesthetic value to their tools than to the average non-user of these tools. However (and this is a big however!) wooden boat builders and GP users need to remind ourselves that not everybody takes as much stock in the aesthetic value of their tools. Shawn John Fereira <jaf30_at_cornell.edu> wrote: >It appears to me, that like wooden boat builders, GP users tend to get >a bit overzealous in their advocacy of their tools. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.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/ ***************************************************************************
writes: "Because, like wooden boat builders, GP users tend to assign a higher aesthetic value to their tools than to the average non-user of these tools. However (and this is a big however!) wooden boat builders and GP users need to remind ourselves that not everybody takes as much stock in the aesthetic value of their tools." Or the fact that good tools last many generations performing their tasks as perfectly as he who wields the tool. But then again if you consider a kayak a tool, (paddle, sailboat, trawler, currachs, even the lowly coracles, made of wood & tarred leather) they certainly do have an aesthetic sense about them. I think of the sound of waves on a glass hull vs. a wooden or SOF for one. Fortunately for all of us taste is individual, and you're free to establish whatever norms you want for however long you want. 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. Kevin *************************************************************************** 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 10:33 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/ ***************************************************************************
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