Inimitable? Well thanks Jennifer. Your kayak IS sweet! Doug, I encourage you to jump in to the world of light and lively kayaks! Most of the western man books on Greenland boats are plain vanilla, and focus on jigs, and very generic kayaks, more than spirit, but they can be useful lead ins. These boats are not only more elegant in their reality, but their methods of construction are more elemental than our most common how-to-books... The Morris book is in my opinion the most spirited how-to from a North American to date. Two more sources that I haven't seen mentioned. The really inimitable Harvey Golden's tome, Kayaks of Greenland, while not a how-to, per se, is the most definitive volume on the breadth and width of the design choices in the tradition. Go from there. Countless examples of built-in and strap on skeg styles. For how-to of the real deal, refer to HC Petersen's little book Instruction in Kayak Building, in Greenlandic, Danish, and English. The spirit of these kayaks is really alive there. His Skinboats of Greenland is an excellent source of more general scope. You can order this book straight from Nuuk: http://www.atuagkat.com/shopfront.asp Btw, a plug for Nick Shade's excellent bibliography on building! Not all SOF sources, but this might also be useful to you. http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/guillemot/information/bibliography. Hope this helps! Turner *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Apr 04 2007 - 05:21:29 PDT
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