On Apr 1, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Bradford Crain wrote: > Maybe a little canoeing is in order, until good health is restored. It is a good idea and I am going to try this approach. I have to wait a few more weeks until I am wearing a boot cast that I can wrap in such a way as to reasonably protect it from water. > Oouuhhh, I'm jealous! I love my Illusion but there are a few things I would change if I was to do again... > Is Sterling using a mold he already has, with modifications, or is he taking it from the ground up? He built it from my own mold. It was a pleasure to work with him. I had planned to do some of the custom work on the boat myself because there are a lot of fiddly things about the design after the hull and deck are laid up but the Achilles injury made that impossible. So I had to settle for his crew doing the whole thing so I had to sacrifice a few things that only an irrational owner of the design would be willing to do. (Very complicated bulkhead configurations and complex tubing that I commonly put inside my boats) I am going to pick up the first one next Wednesday. Normally that would be reason for a quick dash over to Blake Island as a maiden voyage. Now I have to wait. This is a design for wilderness camping and I still hope to do a week of that in late summer. *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Apr 01 2012 - 10:12:42 PDT
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