In a message dated 8/10/2004 7:03:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, strosaker_at_yahoo.com writes: > With all this legal talk about about copying, I'm wondering if we should > start paying the Greenlanders and Aleutians royalties for all of our kayak > designs :^)). > Duane and all, If you follow the sentiment of some of the paddlers on the QajaqUSA forum the modern composites/plastic/strip/ S&G/SOF/Lincoln Log/Lego kayaks of today are not real qajaq's at all (note the different spelling). They are qajariaq, or like a Greenland qajaq. My own view is that there is no one true kayak. Unless you are talking about SOT's: those are not kayaks, they are dugouts. Rob G *************************************************************************** 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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