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Sea Kayaker mag plans by C. Cunningham
By:Dean Trexel
Date: 4/4/2000, 3:02 pm
In Response To: Re: Greenland style kayaks (Ross Leidy)

Chris Cunningham's plans for the 18'x21.5" stitch-n-glue boat are in the Fall '94 issue. I got a back-issue of it from Sea Kayaker, and they not only included an additional sheet with the corrected offsets, but I recieved another of these sheets in the mail a few months later because they weren't sure they had sent them. I bought some veneer to make a 1/8-scale model. Being a CAD designer, I plotted all the points and scaled them down. Another 'to-do' when I get my Outer Island done.

The design is very similar to his skin-on-frame kayak plans from the '92-'93 issues, but with a bit less rocker for better tracking and a flatter bottom for better initial stability. He also has some neat flush oval hatches with very solid closures.

Dean

> I couldn't remember exactly, so I took a peek at the Sea Kayaker Mag
> website. Their index shows the following:

> Kayaks, Greenland construction Part I, "Building a Greenland
> Kayak," Christopher Cunningham, Winter 1992, page 18.

> Kayaks, Greenland kayak construction Part II, "Building a Greenland
> Kayak Part II," Christopher Cunningham, Spring 1993, page 52.

> You'll have to order reprints (photocopies) because they're out of actual
> back issues. If they don't offer, make sure you ask for the corrected
> offset tables.

> Have fun,

> Ross

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Greenland style kayaks
Sean Underhill -- 4/4/2000, 8:11 am
Re: Greenland style kayaks
Mike Hanks -- 4/4/2000, 7:02 pm
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lee -- 4/4/2000, 7:46 pm
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Chuck -- 4/4/2000, 3:27 pm
Re: Greenland style kayaks
Lew Crenshaw -- 4/4/2000, 9:36 am
Re: Greenland style kayaks
Ross Leidy -- 4/4/2000, 9:44 am
Re: Greenland style kayaks
Tony -- 4/4/2000, 12:32 pm
Re: Greenland style kayaks
Ross Leidy -- 4/4/2000, 1:14 pm
Sea Kayaker mag plans by C. Cunningham
Dean Trexel -- 4/4/2000, 3:02 pm
Re: oops
Ross Leidy -- 4/4/2000, 3:17 pm
Re: Greenland style kayaks
Jack Martin -- 4/4/2000, 8:56 am
Re: Greenland style kayaks
pete czerpak -- 4/4/2000, 8:27 am
Re: Greenland style kayaks
Peter H -- 4/4/2000, 1:45 pm
Re: Greenland style kayaks
Lew Crenshaw -- 4/4/2000, 4:02 pm
Re: Greenland style kayaks
Peter H -- 4/4/2000, 5:11 pm
Re: Greenland style kayaks
Greg Stamer -- 4/4/2000, 7:37 pm
Re: Greenland style kayaks
Peter H -- 4/5/2000, 11:29 am
Re: Greenland style kayaks
Greg Stamer -- 4/5/2000, 1:27 pm
Re: Greenland style kayaks
Greg Hicks -- 4/4/2000, 9:58 am