Craig Jungers wrote: > Towards the bottom of this page is a close-up photograph of the slot between > the upper and lower bows. I've never built a kayak but this design appears > (to me, at least) to add a great deal of complexity over a Greenland bow > shape. It's gives the kayak a cool look but I keep wondering why they did > it. Craig, consider the debate among archaeologists over the body piercings found in the current generation of younguns: What function do you suppose the future scribes might deduce? Those bow splits might have some inscrutable cultural purpose; absent hard data: numbers to document any advantage, debate seems mostly debate and not resolution of a quandary. -- 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 Tue Aug 14 2007 - 08:33:13 PDT
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