Duane Strosaker said: " I've been busy this spring designing, building, and testing a plywood sea kayak. In my not so humble opinion, the kayak is quite impressive. I was thinking about selling the plans, but then I remembered my vow of poverty in the sport. As a result, the plans are online at http://www.rollordrown.com/kayak/index.html. " Duane, All I can say is I'm REALLY impressed. Aside from the boat looking good in pictures and hearing about your adventures with it to, from, and around Catalina for a week, I just finished reading your directions. Although I'm not by any stretch of the imagination a wood worker and a lot of what you were saying was way over my head---it doesn't sound real easy. It looks and sounds like you should really know what you are doing before starting to build one of these. So now we have a man, who is obviously a little lacking in the head (you did jump out of perfectly good airplanes for a living--before they landed), is one of the best paddlers I've met (or even heard of for that matter), and now you're not only building boats but designing them. I think you should take back your vow of poverty and sell the plans and/or completed boats---you deserve to be wealthy. Steve Holtzman *************************************************************************** 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 Jun 16 2004 - 12:34:39 PDT
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