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Re: Strip: Buying Footbraces
By:john raley
Date: 7/3/2011, 8:08 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Buying Footbraces (Alex Ferguson)

: You've built the whole kayak, quite a large job. So what's so hard
: about building good, wooden, adjustable foot braces? Not side
: mounted for just part of your foot but full-foot sized with the
: adjustment on a slide along the keel? It's not rocket science.

: Alex

Thank you! I'm building an sof, and have been trying to figure out how to build adjustable foot braces. I kept trying to figure out how to build two braces that mount on the chines. Of course one brace on the keel is better! Problem solved! Two 1/2" ply plates with a series of channels cut in them epoxied and pegged to each side of the keel with a removable plywood footbrace that fits in the channels....

Thanks,

John R.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Buying Footbraces
Jim Schaffer -- 7/2/2011, 9:49 am
Re: Strip: Buying Footbraces
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 7/2/2011, 10:04 am
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Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 7/2/2011, 10:27 am
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Jeff Horton -- 7/2/2011, 1:23 pm
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Jim Schaffer -- 7/2/2011, 9:28 pm
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Erik Jensen -- 7/2/2011, 11:52 pm
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Jim Schaffer -- 7/3/2011, 7:41 am
Re: Strip: Buying Footbraces
Jeff Horton -- 7/3/2011, 10:21 am
Location measurements
Jeff Horton -- 7/3/2011, 10:19 am
Re: Location measurements
Bill Hamm -- 7/4/2011, 12:22 am
Re: Location measurements
Jim Schaffer -- 7/4/2011, 2:20 pm
Re: Location measurements
Bill Hamm -- 7/5/2011, 12:43 am
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John Caldeira -- 7/2/2011, 11:19 am
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Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 7/2/2011, 12:13 pm
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george jung -- 7/2/2011, 1:56 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/3/2011, 12:24 am
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John Caldeira -- 7/2/2011, 3:51 pm
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Alex Ferguson -- 7/3/2011, 7:04 am
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john raley -- 7/3/2011, 8:08 am
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Alex Ferguson -- 7/3/2011, 7:42 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/4/2011, 12:25 am
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Alex Ferguson -- 7/4/2011, 1:21 am
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Bob Johns -- 7/4/2011, 7:42 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/5/2011, 12:45 am
Re: Strip: Buying Footbraces *PIC*
John Caldeira -- 7/4/2011, 10:38 pm
Re: Nick Schade's Footbraces
jeffrey wong -- 7/5/2011, 12:40 am
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jeffrey wong -- 7/5/2011, 12:14 am
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Wayne One (wwfloyd) -- 7/5/2011, 12:53 am
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Alex Ferguson -- 7/5/2011, 7:02 am
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Wayne One (wwfloyd) -- 7/5/2011, 8:18 am
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Alex Ferguson -- 7/6/2011, 4:55 am