Paddlewisers, 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 Strosaker Southern California *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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/ ***************************************************************************
On Jun 16, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Steve Holtzman wrote: > > I think you should take back your vow of poverty and sell the plans > and/or > completed boats---you deserve to be wealthy. If there is a way to become wealthy selling plans or building wooden kayaks, please let me know how its done. Nick Schade Guillemot Kayaks 824 Thompson St Glastonbury, CT 06033 USA Ph/Fx: (860) 659-8847 http://www.guillemot-kayaks.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/ ***************************************************************************
Nick Schade said: > If there is a way to become wealthy selling plans or building > wooden kayaks, please let me know how its done. > Nick, If you only lose a little bit on each boat you sell--just make it up in volume. (LOL)or just continue doing what you are doing--making a good boat at a fair price and be able to look at yourself in the mirror every morning. 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/ ***************************************************************************
[Moderator's Note: Content unaltered. Excessive quoting (including headers/footers/sig lines/extraneous text from previous posts, etc.) have been removed. Please edit quoted material in addition to removing header/trailers when replying to posts.] Duane, You certainly have a beautiful design. If you would just get a real paddle (you know, wood, 3.5 inch blades, symmetric foil shapes, etc) it would look even better when paddled. On a serious note: What are the significant features of your design. Is yours pretty close to some of the other Greenland style stitch & glue plans (it looks similiar to my untrained eye) or did you come up with some special modifications. Do you even consider this a Greenland style kayak? Mark J. Arnold > From: Strosaker <strosaker_at_cox.net> > Subject: [Paddlewise] Sea Kayak Plans Online > > Paddlewisers, > > 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 Strosaker *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Mark, A Greenland style kayak probably best describes the Point Bennett, because it has a hardchine, upswept ends, and a flat deck. But so many kayaks that aren't even close to being like a Greenlander are called that, I try to avoid using the term. As you can see by the standard paddle I use, I'm not a Greenland aficionado. I fall more towards the BCU school of thought. It's just that a Greenland style kayak is easy to make out of plywood. The real trick to any kind of sea kayak design is positioning the keel, chine, sheer and paddler to get the desired performance. Duane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Arnold" <mjamja_at_earthlink.net> To: "Strosaker" <strosaker_at_cox.net>; "Paddlewise" <Paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:02 PM Subject: RE: [Paddlewise] Sea Kayak Plans Online > Duane, > > You certainly have a beautiful design. If you would just get a real paddle > (you know, wood, 3.5 inch blades, symmetric foil shapes, etc) it would look > even better when paddled. > > On a serious note: > What are the significant features of your design. Is yours pretty close to > some of the other Greenland style stitch & glue plans (it looks similiar to > my untrained eye) or did you come up with some special modifications. > Do you even consider this a Greenland style kayak? > > Mark J. Arnold *************************************************************************** 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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