Other than Franz Romer's, Atlantic crossing, custom Klepper "Deutsch Sport" (at 21' 6" x 36" wide--from 1928) I don't have any information on any Klepper double anywhere near 6 meters (19' 8") long (until the 19' long triples of just a couple of years ago anyway). Most pre-war doubles were at most a few inches over 17' long until the 1950's when a few were made 18' long (5.5 meters). Those were narrower though, about 30" rather than the 34" that you mention (and 34" to 35" is what many of the old 17 footers were). Are you sure the length was measured correctly? My source has the Klepper T-12 being first built in 1962 and it was 17' 1" by 34.6" wide. I've not heard of a T-18 until now. There was a T-8 that was a double with about the same dimensions as the T-12. I looked up Niewadow on Google and Google asked if I meant "Niewiadow". Apparently I did. I hadn't heard that name before but I had that kayak listed as a Neptune built by Predom in Poland sometime before 1986. Now with Google I've lowered that to sometime before 1961. My original information indicated it being very similar to an East German Pouch. One or two listings in Google said it was very similar to a Klepper, I don't know much else about it. Any chance I could get the length, width, and the cockpit inside, depth, length and width measurements (for my collection) from your friend who has the frame? Matt Broze www.marinerkayaks.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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Aug 27 2004 - 19:41:02 PDT
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