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Re: Cut Down Sailboard Sail
By:John Monroe
Date: 5/20/2008, 4:02 am
In Response To: Re: Cut Down Sailboard Sail (Bill Hamm)

: Hi John,

: Interesting link, though I plan on using the rig full sized. Have two sails,
: one is around 45 ft and the other is about 65 ft.

: Right now I'm thinking of building a sort of bateau (you might have to go
: look that one up ), as a test mule to try rig designs without having a
: fixed kayak to have to fit everything to.

Smart idea Bill. My poor kayak has had so many innovations and changes it looks like a porcupine.

: Bill H.

Bill, you are contributing to my education.

"A bateau is a shallow-draft, flat-bottomed boat which was used extensively across North America, especially in the colonial period and in the fur trade. It was traditionally pointed at both ends but came in a wide variety of sizes. The name derives from the French word, bateau, which is simply the word for boat and the plural, bateaux, follows the French, an unusual construction for an English plural. In the southern United States, the term is still used to refer to flat bottomed boats, including those elsewhere called jon boats."

John

Messages In This Thread

Other: Sail Project Update. *Pic*
John Monroe -- 5/6/2008, 3:17 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
Bill Hamm -- 5/15/2008, 12:56 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update. *Pic*
John Monroe -- 5/15/2008, 3:53 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
Bill Hamm -- 5/16/2008, 11:59 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
John Monroe -- 5/17/2008, 5:06 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
Bill Hamm -- 5/18/2008, 5:43 pm
Cut Down Sailboard Sail *LINK* *Pic*
John Monroe -- 5/19/2008, 5:09 am
Re: Cut Down Sailboard Sail
Bill Hamm -- 5/20/2008, 1:29 am
Re: Cut Down Sailboard Sail
John Monroe -- 5/20/2008, 4:02 am
Re: Cut Down Sailboard Sail
Bill Hamm -- 5/21/2008, 1:32 am
Re: Cut Down Sailboard Sail
John Monroe -- 5/21/2008, 5:10 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
Bill Hamm -- 5/18/2008, 1:23 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update. *NM*
Bill Hamm -- 5/16/2008, 11:58 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
Bill Hamm -- 5/15/2008, 2:45 pm
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
John Monroe -- 5/16/2008, 3:41 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
Mike Savage -- 5/15/2008, 6:26 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update. *Pic*
John Monroe -- 5/16/2008, 10:17 am
looking at that sketch...
risto -- 5/17/2008, 8:36 am
Re: looking at that sketch...
John Monroe -- 5/18/2008, 4:26 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
Mike Savage -- 5/16/2008, 12:03 pm
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
John Monroe -- 5/17/2008, 4:56 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
Mike Savage -- 5/17/2008, 8:20 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
John Monroe -- 5/18/2008, 3:57 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
Mike Savage -- 5/18/2008, 8:35 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
John Monroe -- 5/19/2008, 4:48 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
Mike Savage -- 5/19/2008, 5:56 am
More Side Track Info. *NM* *Pic*
John Monroe -- 5/20/2008, 3:46 am
Re: More Side Track Info.
Mike Savage -- 5/20/2008, 9:06 am
Re: More Side Track Info.
John Monroe -- 5/21/2008, 4:48 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
John Monroe -- 5/16/2008, 3:37 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
Bill Hamm -- 5/7/2008, 1:02 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
John Monroe -- 5/7/2008, 4:02 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
Bill Hamm -- 5/8/2008, 12:46 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
Chris Ostlind -- 5/6/2008, 3:01 pm
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
John Monroe -- 5/7/2008, 3:37 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
Mike Savage -- 5/6/2008, 4:35 am
Re: Other: Sail Project Update.
John Monroe -- 5/7/2008, 4:30 am