That's Brian Shulz's web site. I talked to him at the Depot Bay Wooden Boat festival last spring. He had two nice s.o.f. boats as did his friend, Harvey Golden http://www.traditionalkayaks.com/index.html. Harvey built a sailing s.o.f proa last year and was telling us how fun sailing it was, though he swam a lot. Brian was finishing his sailing s.o.f. proa that was larger and probably more stable. I have an interest in trying to sail a traction kite with a cobra wavewitch that has an under-hull rudder, but have been unable to find anyone kayak sailing with this type of kite. So we talked about our different, yet similar paths of exploration. Brian is a skilled W.W. paddler as well. I haven't paddled with him yet, he paddles primarily solo and he's a bit far north. Anyone interested in building a S.O.F. boat would do well to take one of his classes. My paddling partner, Doug Gordon, built a baidarka last year and we have done open coast trips with small craft advisory conditions and surf landings in 6ft. swell and smaller. His baidarka handled very well including surf landings w/o pearling. It weighs about 30 lbs. For other great photos of our coast, check out Jonathan Walpole's http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~walpole/kayaking.html. Doug and I ran into Jonathan and his wife off Cascade Head. We explored a cave that several Olympic size pools could fit within. This was only the second time that I have run into other paddlers off our coast. The other time was two guys in oc1's. I paddle a surfski or a Seda Reveng SOT. We seem to be a small eclectic group paddling an incredibly beautiful Coastline. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Dave Kruger" <kdruger_at_pacifier.com> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:36:58 -0700 >Guy south of me a ways on the Oregon Coast. Some nice photos of SOF boats: >http://www.capefalconkayak.com/ > >He apparently paddles his in serious surf -- the beach there is very exposed. > >No affiliation ... just something I found. > >-- >Dave Kruger >Astoria, OR ________________________________________________________________ *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Sep 12 2004 - 17:07:22 PDT
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