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Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
By:Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks
Date: 1/5/2017, 7:41 pm
In Response To: Re: Other: Over-Thinking It (Steve Solomon)

If I memorized your book and could recite back every page chapter and verse, I would still know nothing about how to build a kayak - I might know the "what" but not the "why," and without the "why" it's just a series of memorized movements.

Unfortunately, there are people who have a lot of book knowledge and are free to share it, but don't have experience. I can imagine a comprehensive book that includes every piece of information relevant to how and why, but the how and why really only has context and meaning when there is experience to place the theoretical into reality.

Boatbuilding and all similar skills is about doing. Without doing the thing, no amount of explaining will help, because every good explanation will only generate more questions. As a result, the best answer, from the learning perspective is: "give it a try." A little bit of experience is worth a whole bunch of questions. Experience helps you formulate good questions. Without it, you get caught up in irrelevancies.

Knowing "why" is invaluable in the long run, but gaining the full and complete answer before you experience some of the alternatives yourself is too much to hope for.

Messages In This Thread

Other: Over-Thinking It
Steve Solomon -- 1/5/2017, 9:15 am
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Marc Upchurch -- 1/5/2017, 10:26 am
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Steve Solomon -- 1/5/2017, 10:52 am
Withdrawl
Marc Upchurch -- 1/5/2017, 12:31 pm
Re: Withdrawl
JohnAbercrombie -- 1/5/2017, 12:45 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Steve Solomon -- 1/5/2017, 11:22 am
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Nick R. -- 1/5/2017, 10:42 am
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Steve Solomon -- 1/5/2017, 11:07 am
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Walt -- 1/5/2017, 1:01 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Steve Solomon -- 1/5/2017, 1:43 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Les Cheeseman -- 1/5/2017, 2:31 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 1/5/2017, 11:32 am
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
JohnAbercrombie -- 1/5/2017, 12:26 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
John Messinger -- 1/5/2017, 1:04 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Etienne Muller -- 1/5/2017, 3:27 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
JohnAbercrombie -- 1/5/2017, 11:57 am
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Etienne Muller -- 1/5/2017, 3:31 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 1/5/2017, 4:33 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
JohnAbercrombie -- 1/5/2017, 12:23 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
GCole -- 1/5/2017, 1:06 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
JohnAbercrombie -- 1/5/2017, 1:16 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Randy Echtinaw -- 1/5/2017, 1:49 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It *PIC*
Roy Martin -- 1/5/2017, 2:14 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It *PIC*
Roy Martin -- 1/5/2017, 2:17 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Steve Solomon -- 1/5/2017, 2:26 pm
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Peter -- 1/6/2017, 8:52 am
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Randy Echtinaw -- 1/6/2017, 10:25 am
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Peter F Lord -- 1/6/2017, 10:47 am
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Marc Upchurch -- 1/6/2017, 11:34 am
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Bill Hamm -- 1/7/2017, 12:40 am
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Randy Echtinaw -- 1/7/2017, 9:51 am
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Randy Echtinaw -- 1/7/2017, 10:53 am
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Marc Upchurch -- 1/7/2017, 11:12 am
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Randy Echtinaw -- 1/7/2017, 1:41 pm
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Marc Upchurch -- 1/7/2017, 3:01 pm
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Randy Echtinaw -- 1/7/2017, 3:47 pm
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Marc Upchurch -- 1/7/2017, 5:25 pm
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Bill Hamm -- 1/8/2017, 12:25 am
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Peter F Lord -- 1/8/2017, 9:55 am
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Marc Upchurch -- 1/8/2017, 11:22 am
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Peter F Lord -- 1/8/2017, 3:54 pm
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Bill Mayberry -- 1/8/2017, 5:36 pm
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Bill Hamm -- 1/9/2017, 1:17 am
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Peter F Lord -- 1/9/2017, 4:54 am
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Randy Echtinaw -- 1/9/2017, 8:09 am
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Bill Hamm -- 1/12/2017, 1:26 am
Re: SOF kayak and biplane construction
Peter F Lord -- 1/15/2017, 5:29 am
Cluture Comment - Yes
Marc Upchurch -- 1/5/2017, 2:11 pm
Re: Cluture Comment - Yes
Steve Solomon -- 1/5/2017, 2:45 pm
Re: Cluture Comment - Yes
Marc Upchurch -- 1/5/2017, 3:46 pm
Re: Cluture Comment - Yes
Steve Solomon -- 1/5/2017, 4:33 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Etienne Muller -- 1/5/2017, 3:52 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 1/5/2017, 5:11 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Randy Echtinaw -- 1/5/2017, 5:41 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It *PIC*
scottbaxter -- 1/5/2017, 5:59 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Marc Upchurch -- 1/5/2017, 6:09 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
scottbaxter -- 1/5/2017, 6:32 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Steve Solomon -- 1/5/2017, 7:17 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Marc Upchurch -- 1/5/2017, 7:39 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Steve Solomon -- 1/5/2017, 10:39 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Bill Hamm -- 1/6/2017, 3:32 am
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 1/6/2017, 10:22 am
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Bill Hamm -- 1/8/2017, 12:31 am
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Steve Solomon -- 1/5/2017, 6:14 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
John -- 1/5/2017, 6:32 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Nick R. -- 1/5/2017, 6:41 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Steve Solomon -- 1/5/2017, 6:57 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 1/5/2017, 7:41 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Steve Solomon -- 1/5/2017, 11:51 pm
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Bill Hamm -- 1/6/2017, 3:09 am
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Les Cheeseman -- 1/6/2017, 9:46 am
How the forum functions
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 1/6/2017, 11:29 am
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 1/6/2017, 11:03 am
Re: Other: Over-Thinking It
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 1/6/2017, 11:57 am