Beth Payne wrote: - > I live in Dakar, Senegal and have been working with a fellow paddler, > Ousmane Fall, who is a member of Senegal's national kayak team (they > have 6 team members) to start a small kayaking center in Dakar. Darry; wrote >How's this for an outrageous idea? What about setting up a boat >building centre as well, and build stitch-and-glue boats. If you've >got fibreglass, then you must be able to get plywood. G'Day Beth Payne, Darryl's idea makes a lot of sense to me - it would mean your boats wouldn't be so restricted in design and could be adapted for local needs and creativity. I wondered if there was potential for kayak building, which drew on local capacities and didn't have to access materials/templates that might be hard to come by? Could you describe whether Dakar has local boat builders and if so what they use for materials and techniques? Then maybe someone on Paddlewise could find kayak design and building instructions using these techniques, for translation into French. All the best, PeterO *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Mar 22 2005 - 12:58:23 PST
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