> > In the summer 1991 issue of Sea Kayaker Magazine is an article by > Steven > > J. Szarawarski detailing how to turn your hard shelled boat into a three > piece > > take-a-part. You begin by taking your boat and cutting it into three > pieces! > > Probably the most frightening article I have ever read in SK, which to > this day > > still causes me to occasionally wake up in the middle of the night > screaming > > :-) As a postscript. I did meet him a bit earlier and did see how he had the boat setup for airline baggage (large fitted canvas bags to hold the pieces (I recall that one nestled into another and so he had two pieces, in effect, to contend with). He had some problems with bending of the flanges that help hold the boat together. Not soon after the article was written, he got rid of the boat. I don't know why. > They are exactly this: three piece hardshell kayaks. Transporting such > pieces in airplane isn't much easier than complete rigid hull. Definitely, > I wouldn't get on a Mexican bus with such a luggage. In such rough travel conditions the problem would be that people would sit on the boat parts as it was in transit as they might any other bulk package. That wouldn't be too good for the fiberglass deck in some places particularly toward the open ends of the pieces. > forces. On the other hand, they will have seams/joints in the hull - > something that neither hardshells nor folders don't have, and I'm happy they > don't. I haven't had a 3-piece kayak, though :-). As I recall, Ralph > didn't find necessary to cover this topic in his "Complete Folding Kayaker", > which should mean for us mortals that they aren't folders. When I wrote the book I had to make a basic decision of what to cover. I also left out inflatables. What I wanted to concentrate on was skin over frame kayaks that have such an illustrious long history. Inflatables don't, sectional hardshells neither. That wasn't a supermortal decision, just a practical one of not diluting the contents by going into stray directions. There was so much to write about on skin foldable boats. ralph diaz *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Mar 21 2004 - 05:54:10 PST
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