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Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
By:Jon Mortimer
Date: 6/14/2011, 12:13 pm
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka *PIC* (Clayton Plunkett)

Nice compact looking double. Can we have a picture with the skin on?

The offsets don't seem to be on Tom Yost's site yet.

Jon Mortimer

: Oops, I left off the message.
: I am finishing up a double baidarka designed by Tom Yost. The frame
: is finished and it getting it's skin now.
: Tom came up with a great name the DoubleDarka. It started several
: weeks back when I asked Tom if he had ever thought about a
: double Nikumi and he said thet he had something he had been
: working on a while back. Well that must have inspired him to
: finish the designing and I got the offsets and here is what came
: out.

: LOA 18.5'
: Beam 25.5"
: BWL 22.5
: Displ. 450 lbs. @ 4.5" WL
: Immersion 120 lbs. per inch
: Sections 9 ea.
: Coamings 30X16
: Cp. 0.60

: The DoubleDarka is not a bigger Nikumi but a new design. I am
: building it with cedar stringers. 1/2" ply stations, glued
: and pegged construction. I have skined it with 8oz poly and
: coated it with urethane. I am installing a line so I can pull
: float bags into the ends and back out again, something I have
: wanted to do for the last several SOF builds.

: Soon my daughter and I will launch the DoubleDarka and give a
: paddling report, can hardly wait. Until then comments are
: welcome.

: Clayton Plunkett

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka *PIC*
Clayton Plunkett -- 6/14/2011, 10:22 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka *PIC*
Clayton Plunkett -- 6/14/2011, 10:47 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Jon Mortimer -- 6/14/2011, 12:13 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Outlaw -- 6/14/2011, 1:06 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Clayton Plunkett -- 6/14/2011, 1:44 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Bill Hamm -- 6/15/2011, 8:22 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Clayton Plunkett -- 6/15/2011, 10:16 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Dave Gentry -- 6/14/2011, 1:32 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Michael -- 6/16/2011, 4:25 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Clayton Plunkett -- 6/17/2011, 9:06 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Bill Hamm -- 6/18/2011, 1:43 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Michael -- 6/18/2011, 3:13 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Bill Hamm -- 6/18/2011, 11:46 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Jon Mortimer -- 6/19/2011, 7:24 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Bill Hamm -- 6/19/2011, 10:32 am