On 23 Mar 2005 at 7:44, PeterO wrote: > 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? Plywood, especially waterproof stuff, is a specialized material. Skin on frame designs use lower-value materials and are more suited to adaptation to local materials. > Then maybe someone on Paddlewise could find kayak design and building > instructions using these techniques, for translation into French. That's a lot of work. It would be easier to find existing texts in French. I haven't looked much, but I know that there are centers of kayak building enthusiasm in French speaking areas like Quebec, Belgium and France. Qajaq USA's web site has folks posting from these areas. Nicolas Bertrand is particuarly active in the Montreal region: <http://www.wazop.net/nicolas/categorie.shtml?c=Kayak>. Searching the web for French language sites is likely worthwhile. It's also a good idea to search on the Canadian Museum of Civilization's web site. They provide many documents in both English and French. For modern kayaks, France's web sites would be the place to start. Try http://www.google.fr/ and search on local web sites only. Mike *************************************************************************** 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 - 14:05:51 PST
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