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Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
By:Michael
Date: 6/16/2011, 4:25 pm
In Response To: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka *PIC* (Clayton Plunkett)

Your frame looks beautiful. Mature geometry. Or something like that. Like an aircraft fuse that doesn't have anything superfluous and doesn't lack for strength. Maybe someone can help me express my admiration better?

Have you given any thought to sleeping aboard? I like to sleep in my boats, the aircraft style of construction makes that uncomfortable. Would a deck at the level of the lower frame tops be too high, metacenter-wise, for good stability? Herreshoff had a raised deck in his kayaks, one of them anyway, and still had good stability.

The floorboards in the rec-boat I am skinning are below the frames, that's how I know how hard it will be to lie down comfortably.

Beautiful boat

Michael

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka *PIC*
Clayton Plunkett -- 6/14/2011, 10:22 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka *PIC*
Clayton Plunkett -- 6/14/2011, 10:47 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Jon Mortimer -- 6/14/2011, 12:13 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Outlaw -- 6/14/2011, 1:06 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Clayton Plunkett -- 6/14/2011, 1:44 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Bill Hamm -- 6/15/2011, 8:22 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Clayton Plunkett -- 6/15/2011, 10:16 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Dave Gentry -- 6/14/2011, 1:32 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Michael -- 6/16/2011, 4:25 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Clayton Plunkett -- 6/17/2011, 9:06 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Bill Hamm -- 6/18/2011, 1:43 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Michael -- 6/18/2011, 3:13 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Bill Hamm -- 6/18/2011, 11:46 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Jon Mortimer -- 6/19/2011, 7:24 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: The DoubleDarka
Bill Hamm -- 6/19/2011, 10:32 am