----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert C Cline" <rccline_at_fastmail.fm> > I'm not too keen on paddling entry level plastics for touring around. > Not too keen on sit on tops either. These boats have their place. I am > interested in expeditioning: Open coast, 20 mile days. I think it's > prudent to be picky about the boat you use for such an endeavor. It's > hard to find a rental boats I feel are suitable for expeditioning, so I > have been looking for ways to ship my own boat. Robert: W/ shipping rates such as cited it really seems unreasonable. Have you considered building one of Tom Yost's folders. For somewhere around 300$ worth of materials and under 100hrs of your labor you could have a nice portable well performing boat. You could even make a folding version of your favorite rigid/glass boat. check it out: http://yostwerks.com/MainMenu.html An other idea is the "disposable kit" skin on frame. That is, you build a skin on frame kayak, disassemble the parts, stuff them in a duffle bag as Harvey Golden did when he went to Greenland. You spend a day and a half asembling the thing at your destination and leave it there when you depart. Materials would be under 100$ . Robert Morris in his book "Building Skin on frame Boats" has the details on how to accomplish this. Chris Cunningham of Skayaker mag has done one or two this way as well. He details this in his book on "Building the Greenland Kayak". He actually uses a #10 YKK zipper on the skin so he can disassemble the thing and take it back home w/ him. (making it waterproof w/ Sno-Seal boot wax) For half the cost of shipping a rigid I bet Tom would rent you one of his folders !!!!!and then w/ the ballance you could buy me a ticket so I could go paddling w/ you in Belize. :-) kind regards: Michael *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Sep 27 2004 - 06:34:42 PDT
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