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Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 7/14/2015, 2:42 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational (Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks)

From the little I've read these were intended to be loaded in use, so I would suspect they carried ballast when they weren't loaded so they'd sit on their lines. I'd suspect in traditional use the lower bow was normally in the water, not raised above it. I also suspect that the recreational versions we use are often too lightly loaded to preform correctly or they need to be re-designed for a lighter load, which may well change the operation so they only look like a traditional version and not really preform as one.

Bill H.

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Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Edward -- 7/10/2015, 12:19 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Jeff Horton -- 7/10/2015, 2:35 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
dave koslow -- 7/10/2015, 3:30 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Marc Upchurch -- 7/10/2015, 9:46 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Bill Hamm -- 7/11/2015, 8:08 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Marc Upchurch -- 7/11/2015, 9:21 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Bill Hamm -- 7/11/2015, 10:53 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Marc Upchurch -- 7/11/2015, 11:46 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Bill Hamm -- 7/11/2015, 4:35 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/11/2015, 4:39 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Marc Upchurch -- 7/11/2015, 7:14 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Bill Hamm -- 7/12/2015, 3:14 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Marc Upchurch -- 7/12/2015, 6:05 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 7/13/2015, 11:35 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Bill Hamm -- 7/14/2015, 2:37 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Jeff Horton -- 7/11/2015, 9:52 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Jay Babina -- 7/14/2015, 11:43 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/11/2015, 2:17 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Justin -- 7/11/2015, 5:09 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
scottbaxter -- 7/11/2015, 7:32 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Dan Thaler -- 7/12/2015, 6:49 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 7/13/2015, 11:17 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Bill Hamm -- 7/14/2015, 2:42 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka ballast *PIC*
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 7/14/2015, 10:55 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational *PIC*
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 7/14/2015, 11:18 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational *PIC*
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 7/15/2015, 11:09 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
george jung -- 7/16/2015, 7:53 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Edward -- 7/13/2015, 4:17 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Etienne Muller -- 7/14/2015, 7:05 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: baidarka bow form rational
Bill Hamm -- 7/15/2015, 12:19 am