: Sing

: I am also interested in building the Morris baidarka, or something similar. I
: combed the baidarka list archives and could find no discussion of anyone
: building this specific boat.

: If you go with the Morris design, I'd be interested in your thoughts on the
: location of the masik. There were some comments (on the baidarka list)
: that the cockpit on the MAE-593-76 (from which Morris' design draws
: heavily) is placed too close to the stern. FWIW, the link below touches on
: the discussion.

: Keep us posted on your decision. It is, beyond any doubt, an extremely cool
: boat.

: Best Regards,

: Matthew

Thanks for the link. I was actually wondering about that. I have Brinks' book which describes the method for deriving a baidarka's dimensions. I was(am) going to run through that approach and compare my results with Morris' dimensions and see if they're proportional. I don't know if the exercise will produce anything useful since I disregarded Morris' method for arriving at the dimensions for my Greenland SOF.

sing