[Paddlewise] Nordkapp (was Nadgee, Max, Boat Copying)

Quoting Peter Treby <ptreby_at_ozemail.com.au>:

<Very long snip>

> The Nordkapp was modelled on a Greenland boat in a museum. 
> Frank Goodman makes the Nordkapp in the UK, around 1977. 

It was the Anas Acuta that was modeled on a Greenland kayak. At the Great Lakes 
Sea Kayak Symposium a few years ago, Sam Cooke, a member of the 1975 Nordkapp 
expedition, told us that the expedition members, who up till then had mostly 
paddled Anas Acutas, asked Frank Goodman to design a longer kayak with a 
rounder hull for greater capacity and speed. After difficulties with rescues in 
the uncompartmented Anas Acuta, they also requested bulkheads, which Goodman 
was reluctant to add out of concern about stress points, hatch covers, which 
the expedition members designed, a built-in bilge pump, safety lines, and a 
well behind the cockpit for a watertight canister that served the same function 
as today's day hatches. The result was the classic Nordkapp kayak, which 
Goodman later put into commercial production.

One of the fascinating things about Cooke's lecture is that he illustrated it 
with slides of the group's experiments with different hatches, which undercuts 
Derek Hutchinson's claim in the 20th anniversary edition of Sea Kayaker to be 
the sole inventor of compartmented kayaks. 

I once made a comment to Goodman about the Valley kayaks being based on 
Greenland models, and he denied it, saying that his kayaks were designed 
according to the principles of good marine architecture, or words to that 
effect. In fact, though the Anas Acuta was being built by Valley Canoe 
Prooducts at the time of the Nordkapp expedition, I believe the design was by 
Howard Jeffs.

Chuck Holst
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