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Re: Build a Canoe
By:Nick Schade
Date: 8/5/1998, 6:00 pm
In Response To: Re: Build a Canoe (Mark Kanzler)

If you are going to be in waves, you sort of have a choice between a deck and lots of freeboard. Lots of freeboard also means you can load her down more. If you want to make the canoe easier to paddle, use a kayak paddle. They can really make a canoe move and you can see where you are going, unlike a rowboat.

> Actually, I wanted everything except the "lots of freeboard"
> part. I paddled a canoe with my wife once, and the wind kept blowing
> us off course and making it difficult to progress against even during
> the times we managed to stay pointed into it. I'd go for a rowboat
> before a canoe, but I've oared a sabot, and find I like the way a
> kayak slides right along. Sailing is easy, but I want to minimize
> extraneous equipment and setup time. Keeping in mind that I like to
> innovate, I was thinking of something like an enlarge CLC Millcreek
>

Messages In This Thread

Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
Mark Kanzler -- 8/5/1998, 12:35 am
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
Paul A. Lambert -- 8/11/1998, 10:29 am
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
Bram -- 8/15/1998, 11:45 pm
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
NPenney -- 8/10/1998, 8:34 am
Get a book. I'd suggest....
Paul Jacobson -- 8/7/1998, 5:17 pm
Re: Get a book. I'd suggest....
Mark Kanzler -- 8/7/1998, 6:50 pm
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
John Lange -- 8/4/1998, 7:11 pm
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
John Lange -- 8/4/1998, 7:14 pm
Re: Build a Canoe
Nick Schade -- 8/4/1998, 5:53 pm
Re: Build a Canoe
Mark Kanzler -- 8/4/1998, 6:45 pm
Re: Build a Canoe
Nick Schade -- 8/5/1998, 3:14 pm
Re: Build a Canoe
Roger Tulk -- 8/5/1998, 4:53 pm
Re: Build a Canoe
Mark Kanzler -- 8/5/1998, 4:16 pm
Re: Or a Cosine Wherry
Don Beale -- 8/8/1998, 12:40 pm
Don't Be Wary of a Wherry
Mike R -- 8/7/1998, 2:42 pm
Re: Don't Be Wary of a Wherry
NPenney -- 8/11/1998, 7:50 am
Another Idea-The "Poke Boat"
Tom W. -- 8/6/1998, 2:15 pm
Re: Another Idea-The "Poke Boat"
arnold banner -- 8/8/1998, 7:48 pm
Re: Build a Canoe
Nick Schade -- 8/5/1998, 6:00 pm
Re: Build a Canoe
NPenney -- 8/10/1998, 8:26 am
Re: Build a Canoe
Mark Kanzler -- 8/10/1998, 4:52 pm
Re: Build a Canoe
NPenney -- 8/11/1998, 6:16 am
Re: Build a Canoe
Michael Freeman -- 8/11/1998, 12:03 pm
Re: Build a Canoe
Michael Freeman -- 8/11/1998, 12:00 pm
Re: Build a Canoe
Rich Kuchar -- 8/6/1998, 12:39 am
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
Jerry Weinraub -- 8/4/1998, 5:32 pm
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
Mark Kanzler -- 8/4/1998, 6:43 pm
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
John Lange -- 8/5/1998, 12:55 am
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
Mark Kanzler -- 8/4/1998, 1:40 pm
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
John Lange -- 8/4/1998, 3:13 pm
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
Roger Tulk -- 8/4/1998, 3:43 pm
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
Mark Kanzler -- 8/4/1998, 6:06 pm
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
Roger Tulk -- 8/4/1998, 8:13 pm
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
Mark Kanzler -- 8/5/1998, 12:39 am
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
Al Bratton -- 8/10/1998, 8:50 pm
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
Mark Kanzler -- 8/11/1998, 1:28 pm
Re: Design Question (Anthropometric Parameters)
NPenney -- 8/11/1998, 1:51 pm