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Re: Strip: Recommended book/plan
By:Ross Sieber
Date: 2/17/2002, 10:44 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Recommended book/plan (Myrl Tanton)

: I tried to loft from kayak craft, and had considerable difficulty, then put
: it off... I think I figured out how to do it, just have not got around to
: it.
: (I believe the profile and shear line points are reversed, and you have to
: measure from the 4" water line for the deck, but I'm not sure...I've
: yet to do it). If you are as cheap as I am, you want to loft out the
: tables. I found lofting to be quite fun, making the building a complete
: experince. Just fair warning, if you look at Kayak craft and like the
: designs you may have to purchase the plans. The rest of the book seems
: very good.

I lofted the forms for the Endeavor from KayakCraft.
The endform patterns are not in the book, but are available from the website.
The cockpit location and dimensions are not given in the book, though,
and if you contact Bear Mountain for them, they get downright rude about it.
They absolutley refuse to give them to you.
You'll have to scale up the drawings for those.

Other than that, my Endeavor is coming along quite nicely.

Ross

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Recommended book/plan
Ken -- 12/13/2001, 2:36 pm
Re: Strip: Recommended book/plan
KenC -- 12/14/2001, 11:55 am
Re: Any Day Now
Chip Sandresky -- 12/14/2001, 6:25 pm
Re: Strip: Recommended book/plan
Myrl Tanton -- 12/13/2001, 7:47 pm
Re: Strip: Recommended book/plan
Ross Sieber -- 2/17/2002, 10:44 am
Endeavour 17 Cockpit Dimensions
Pete Rudie -- 2/17/2002, 12:09 pm
Re: Endeavour 17 Cockpit Dimensions
Ross Sieber -- 2/17/2002, 12:35 pm
Re: Plug for Steve Killing
Ross Sieber -- 2/17/2002, 12:00 pm
Re: Kayakcraft stem offsets
Ken -- 12/14/2001, 11:27 am
Re: Kayakcraft stem offsets
Myrl Tanton -- 12/15/2001, 1:45 am
Re: Kayakcraft offset errors
Ken -- 12/14/2001, 11:01 am
Re: Strip: Recommended book/plan
Paul G. Jacobson -- 12/13/2001, 5:50 pm
Re: Strip: Recommended book/plan
Chip Sandresky -- 12/13/2001, 3:28 pm