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Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
By:Simeon
Date: 3/23/2009, 12:00 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before? (Charlie)

The Inuits were never able to get very far away from what their fathers left them either, but over a thousand or more years, look what they gave us..
Looks and functions nothing like the first Inuit kayaks.

The Inuit did not have neoprene, titebond or fibreglass, but that doesn't make them a bad idea in kayaks.

If not one good idea has ever come out of this forum, then I'd best stop reading it!

Thanks for your insight though.

: Inuits have put a thousand or more years of development into the kayak. With
: all the modern brain power that we have put into our kayaks nobody has
: been able to get very far away from what the Inuits gave us.
: When you have time start reading thru' the archives of this site. There are
: brainstorms on every page and not one went anywhere. The usual reasons
: were;
: They were impractical.
: They were unsafe.
: They violated the laws of Newtonian Mechanics.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
Simeon -- 3/22/2009, 4:11 pm
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - Thanks for the thoughts
Simeon -- 3/25/2009, 4:31 pm
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - Thanks for the thoughts
Bill Hamm -- 3/26/2009, 12:45 am
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
Dave Houser -- 3/23/2009, 4:09 pm
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
Charlie -- 3/23/2009, 7:42 pm
Build it with an "ocean" cockpit
Brian Nystrom -- 3/23/2009, 9:25 am
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
Bill Hamm -- 3/23/2009, 12:16 am
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
mike allen -- 3/23/2009, 12:00 am
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
Charlie -- 3/22/2009, 11:18 pm
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
FrankP -- 3/23/2009, 3:23 pm
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
Simeon -- 3/23/2009, 12:00 am
You missed the point
Brian Nystrom -- 3/23/2009, 9:48 am
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 3/22/2009, 7:49 pm
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
Simeon -- 3/22/2009, 8:34 pm
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
Simeon -- 3/22/2009, 9:31 pm
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 3/22/2009, 9:59 pm
Strip Helmet!
Simeon -- 3/22/2009, 10:16 pm
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
Simeon -- 3/22/2009, 10:14 pm
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
Bill Hamm -- 3/23/2009, 12:20 am
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
Brian Nystrom -- 3/23/2009, 9:41 am
unsightly coaming, and all that wet neoprene
Reg Lake -- 3/22/2009, 7:30 pm
Re: unsightly coaming, and all that wet neoprene
Simeon -- 3/22/2009, 8:53 pm
Re: unsightly coaming, and all that wet neoprene
Brian Nystrom -- 3/23/2009, 9:31 am
Re: unsightly coaming, and all that wet neoprene
Reg Lake -- 3/22/2009, 9:39 pm
Re: unsightly coaming, and all that wet neoprene
Simeon -- 3/22/2009, 10:21 pm
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
Renato Caldas -- 3/22/2009, 5:23 pm
Re: Strip: Hard skirt - has it been tried before?
Simeon -- 3/22/2009, 5:48 pm