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Re: S&G paddling conditions: compound deck curves
By:Nick Schade
Date: 7/20/1998, 4:28 pm
In Response To: Re: S&G paddling conditions: compound deck curves (Mark Kanzler)

I would suggest a shorter boat for what you want to do. Your shape would probably work well, but since you seem to want a manuverable boat, why not go for it and make it short as well. I don't see the length you now have as giving you much advantage.

The compound curve does not look too severe, but since it is not very noticable, why don't you just make the deck basically conical at each end. It would be easier to make.

> I intend to use this first boat for flatwater to mild ripples
> in small lakes and harbors. Occasional chop and very mild rivers (small
> rapids) later on. Eventually I'll try gradually increasing surf, up
> to about 3 ft. I know places where the surf is not steep, but acts
> more like swell whose tops are toppling over.

> I noticed the copound curves on the deck. I intend to use doorskin
> plywood, and form it over forms on a strongback. I know some of the
> boats in Chris Kulczyki's book are compound bent, but I don't know
> what it takes to ensure succes of this method. If all else fails I
> can strip or canvas the deck over a framework.

> Keep commenting. I'm learning. (But then, who knows, someday
> I may be your competitor, eh) 8)

Messages In This Thread

Okay, I've begun to build... S&G question
Mark Kanzler -- 6/15/1998, 3:49 pm
Re: Okay, I've begun to build... S&G question
Rick C. -- 6/16/1998, 12:45 pm
OOOPPS!!
Rick C. -- 6/17/1998, 1:29 am
Re: Okay, I've begun to build... S&G question
Ross Leidy -- 6/16/1998, 9:23 am
Re: Okay, I've begun to build... S&G question
Nick Schade -- 6/15/1998, 7:36 pm
Are you just pulling our collective leg?
Ross Leidy -- 6/15/1998, 5:29 pm
Re: S&G update no. 1
Mark Kanzler -- 6/16/1998, 11:35 am
Re: S&G update no. 1
Karl Coplan -- 6/17/1998, 12:17 am
Re: S&G update no. 1
Mark Kanzler -- 6/17/1998, 12:37 am
Re: S&G update no. 2
Mark Kanzler -- 6/25/1998, 11:00 am
Re: S&G update no. 2b
Mark Kanzler -- 6/29/1998, 10:51 am
Re: S&G update no. 2b
NPenney -- 6/30/1998, 10:19 am
Re: I got it now
Mark Kanzler -- 6/30/1998, 11:09 am
Re: I got it now
NPenney -- 6/30/1998, 3:20 pm
Re: Experimentation
Mark Kanzler -- 6/30/1998, 5:41 pm
Re: S&G update no. 2b
David Dick -- 6/30/1998, 12:25 am
Re: S&G Shape
Mark Kanzler -- 6/29/1998, 4:39 pm
Re: S&G Shape
Paul Jacobson -- 6/30/1998, 12:47 pm
Re: S&G update no. 2b
Ross Leidy -- 6/30/1998, 12:53 am
Re: S&G update no. 3
Mark Kanzler -- 7/19/1998, 2:31 am
Re: S&G update no. 3
NPenney -- 7/24/1998, 7:43 am
Re: S&G update no. 3
Mark Kanzler -- 7/24/1998, 3:29 pm
Re: S&G update no. 3
NPenney -- 7/27/1998, 11:36 am
Re: S&G update no. 3
Nick Schade -- 7/19/1998, 8:53 pm
Re: S&G paddling conditions: compound deck curves
Mark Kanzler -- 7/20/1998, 1:48 pm
Nick's new competitor
Mike -- 7/20/1998, 11:25 pm
Re: Choo-Choo building.
Mark Kanzler -- 7/21/1998, 11:24 am
Re: S&G paddling conditions: compound deck curves
Nick Schade -- 7/20/1998, 4:28 pm
Re: S&G paddling conditions: compound deck curves
Mark Kanzler -- 7/20/1998, 5:49 pm
Re: Squirt Boat? (and other unorthodoxies)
Mark Kanzler -- 6/29/1998, 4:22 pm
Re: Squirt Boat? (and other unorthodoxies)
David Dick -- 6/29/1998, 4:52 pm
Re: Squirt Boat? (and other unorthodoxies)
Mark Kanzler -- 6/29/1998, 6:48 pm
Re: Squirt Boat? (and other unorthodoxies)
Ross Leidy -- 6/29/1998, 4:50 pm
Re: Squirt Boat? (and other unorthodoxies)
Mark Kanzler -- 6/29/1998, 6:46 pm
Re: S&G update no. 2
Tor-Henrik Furmyr -- 6/25/1998, 7:33 pm
Re: S&G update no. 2
Mike Spence -- 6/26/1998, 12:04 pm
Re: Posting within old threads
Mark Kanzler -- 6/29/1998, 10:24 am
Re: S&G update no. 2
Mark Kanzler -- 6/27/1998, 12:35 am
Re: pictured stored on home-page-aerea.
Tor-Henrik Furmyr -- 6/26/1998, 4:49 pm
Re: pictures stored on home-page-area.
Mark Kanzler -- 6/26/1998, 4:57 pm
Re: pictures stored on home-page-area.
Tor-Henrik Furmyr -- 6/26/1998, 9:55 pm
Re: Are you just pulling our collective leg?
Mark Kanzler -- 6/15/1998, 5:56 pm