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Re: Launching: Speedster
By:Hans Friedel
Date: 4/13/2002, 2:28 pm
In Response To: Re: Launching: Speedster (Matthew)

: Hans,

: Sweet looking boat, care to share any more details?

: Also, whats the paddling like in Sweden?

Thanks

It is made of Norwegian Spruce. It is designed to be a fast open water kayak. It has some more volume forward to lift the kayak over the waves. Diving through waves slows the kayak down. Personaly I think the wind is the biggest problem so I made the profile as low as possible.

Paddling in Sweden is quit OK when the water is not frozen. We have a long coast and a lot of inland lakes.

I enclose a link I live in Västmanland

Hans

Messages In This Thread

Launching: Speedster *Pic*
Hans Friedel -- 4/13/2002, 10:01 am
Re: Launching: Speedster
mike allen ---> -- 4/15/2002, 1:11 pm
Re: Launching: Speedster
Matthew -- 4/13/2002, 11:15 am
Re: Launching: Speedster
Hans Friedel -- 4/13/2002, 2:28 pm