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Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 7/22/2012, 1:07 am
In Response To: Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design (Normand Fortier)

: Thank you for the tips! If I were to modify a design it would be
: only the front deck, so hopefully that would not mess with the
: actual behaviour on water. Actually doing some research on T.
: Yost's Sea Ranger brings up a number of people who have had the
: same concern:

: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Yost-Skin-On-Frame-Boats/message/302
:
: http://home.comcast.net/~buyerj/site/?/page/Sea_Ranger_LC_High_Deck/
: http://blackdogkayaks.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1241879861

: So perhaps that is a viable option for me.

: If I were to build a S&G I would definitely look at a kit, but I
: don't know of anyone who has one of these in my area.

: Normand

Raising the foredeck doesn't really change much, it does change the windage some so you don't want to go a lot higher or the boat might not behave well in a cross wind, specially a boat with a very low flat rear deck like the Sea Ranger or the Sea Rider.

My Sea Ranger is overlong, I scarfed the gunwales and when I bent them over the frames decided I liked the long ends so just made way oversized stems to allow them to be used, ended up a bit over 19'. Waterline length though is very close to the stock boat, just has really long ends. It's a fun boat, lots of cockpit room, but that can be whatever you want, I had a standard keyhole skirt (and cockpit cover) that I wasn't using so I made the cockpit to fit that skirt. Boat does have amazing secondary stability, but you can get that with a round bottom boat too, having a single chine means very little in that regard.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Normand Fortier -- 7/20/2012, 4:58 pm
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Eric Mattison -- 7/20/2012, 7:35 pm
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Normand Fortier -- 7/20/2012, 7:59 pm
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Bill Hamm -- 7/22/2012, 12:57 am
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
John Abercrombie -- 7/20/2012, 9:21 pm
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Normand Fortier -- 7/20/2012, 9:57 pm
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Jeff Buyer -- 7/21/2012, 4:26 pm
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Bill Hamm -- 7/22/2012, 1:07 am
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Normand Fortier -- 7/22/2012, 1:23 pm
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Normand Fortier -- 7/22/2012, 1:27 pm
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Bill Hamm -- 7/23/2012, 1:12 am
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Jeff Buyer -- 7/22/2012, 2:27 pm
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Normand Fortier -- 7/22/2012, 3:01 pm
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Jeff Buyer -- 7/22/2012, 3:21 pm
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Bill Hamm -- 7/23/2012, 1:16 am
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Bill Hamm -- 7/23/2012, 1:15 am
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Jeff Buyer -- 7/26/2012, 7:07 pm
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Normand Fortier -- 7/26/2012, 10:36 pm
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Jeff B -- 7/27/2012, 8:03 am
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Jeff Buyer -- 7/27/2012, 11:03 am
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Marc Upchurch -- 7/21/2012, 8:25 am
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
John Abercrombie -- 7/21/2012, 1:02 pm
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Marc Upchurch -- 7/21/2012, 1:34 pm
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Bob Johns -- 7/21/2012, 1:09 am
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Kirk Fredericks -- 7/21/2012, 9:36 am
Re: Seeking: Advice on choosing a kayak design
Bill Hamm -- 7/22/2012, 1:38 am
Look at Nick's S&G Night Heron design...
Robert N Pruden -- 7/24/2012, 10:09 am
Re: Look at Nick's S&G Night Heron design...
Normand Fortier -- 7/24/2012, 2:10 pm
Re: Look at Nick's S&G Night Heron design...
wysedav -- 9/11/2012, 11:45 am
Re: Look at Nick's S&G Night Heron design...
Normand Fortier -- 9/13/2012, 8:15 pm
Re: Look at Nick's S&G Night Heron design...
wysedav -- 9/14/2012, 12:23 am
Re: Look at Nick's S&G Night Heron design...
John Abercrombie -- 7/24/2012, 4:20 pm
Re: Look at Nick's S&G Night Heron design...
John Abercrombie -- 7/24/2012, 4:40 pm
Re: Look at Nick's S&G Night Heron design...
Robert N Pruden -- 7/24/2012, 4:45 pm
Re: Look at Nick's S&G Night Heron design...
Kirk Briggs -- 9/17/2012, 7:38 pm
Re: Look at Nick's S&G Night Heron design...
Bohdan Szymanik -- 9/21/2012, 3:39 am