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Tandem goes to Florida *Pic*
By:Grant Goltz
Date: 11/15/2000, 8:43 pm

Well, just put rigging on and installed seats in our latest stripper last night. This is a scale-down of our standard Eagle double. It is a foot shorter (at 19' 6") and an inch narrower (26 1/2" beam) than our regular plywood version. Built for a couple in Florida who are sized very differently from each other. Thus the smaller bow cockpit with everything moved a bit forward to best balance their weights (he is 5' 11" and weighs 175# and she is 4' 10" and weighs around 100#).

The deck stripping is their design. This kayak has the mahogany shear and keel strips that I posted a while back. Also, finished with the 2 part clear-coat. Man that stuff shines! About an hour after this picture was taken today (note the snow) this yak was loaded and headed south. I expect it will be happy. (I hope their new Yakima rack is sturdy enough - seemed sort of flimsy to me, thus lots of extra ropes).

Couple more photos at the link

Grant

Messages In This Thread

Tandem goes to Florida *Pic*
Grant Goltz -- 11/15/2000, 8:43 pm
got the photo URL wrong, try again *Pic*
Grant Goltz -- 11/15/2000, 8:51 pm
Re: brrrr,
Lee -- 11/18/2000, 9:25 pm
Re: brrrr,
Grant Goltz -- 11/18/2000, 11:14 pm
Re: got the photo URL wrong, try again
Spidey -- 11/17/2000, 12:49 am
Re: It went to Crystal River
Grant Goltz -- 11/17/2000, 6:57 pm
Re: Beautiful Boat--you do nice work! *NM*
Shawn Baker -- 11/16/2000, 11:40 am
Re: got the photo URL wrong, try again
Kent LeBoutillier -- 11/16/2000, 6:10 am
Re: specs on the kayak
Grant Goltz -- 11/16/2000, 11:43 am
Very Nice :) She's a boat to be proud of *NM*
Roger Nuffer -- 11/16/2000, 2:49 am
She's a beauty !! *NM*
derek -- 11/16/2000, 12:55 am
beautiful boat
tom preska -- 11/15/2000, 9:03 pm