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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Tent pole designs?
By:David Bynoe
Date: 5/20/2011, 12:01 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Tent pole designs? (Charlie)

: 25 pounds is gigantic! Here's a take-a-part that claims 10 lb. Of
: course the pictures show it in water that about as rough as a
: farm pond. I'll bet it would be an adrenalin ride out there in
: the Pacific.
: http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/09/designs/alice/index.htm

: Seriously, there have been several builds of ultralite SOFs and
: their evaluations are provisional till they have been in use a
: while. The last place to test one is out in Hawaiian waters
: unless you are close enough to shore to catch a throw bag.

I will second this. I have a 15lb SOF canoe. It works great... within its rather specific design envelope. I will and have used it in 2-3' white caps and 50+ kilometer an hour winds. It held up just fine. I still wore a dry-suit and figured I could end up swimming at a moments notice. To get the structure that light I had to remove most of the redundancy from the frame, its strong enough, but there isn't a whole heck of a lot of reserve if something weird happens. I also made a decision to build it as an open topped canoe in case it suddenly decides that it wants to be a folder, I didn't want to be trapped in it.

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Skin-on-Frame: Tent pole designs?
frankp -- 4/5/2011, 12:20 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Tent pole designs?
Tom Yost -- 4/5/2011, 4:33 pm
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frankp -- 4/5/2011, 8:26 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/6/2011, 12:55 am
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frankp -- 5/19/2011, 2:13 pm
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Charlie -- 5/19/2011, 5:59 pm
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David Bynoe -- 5/20/2011, 12:01 am
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frankp -- 5/24/2011, 8:17 am
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Bill Hamm -- 5/25/2011, 1:55 am
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Bill Hamm -- 5/19/2011, 8:59 pm
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Brian Nystrom -- 5/20/2011, 6:46 am
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Mike Bielski -- 5/20/2011, 7:38 am
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frankp -- 5/24/2011, 8:20 am
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Bill Hamm -- 5/25/2011, 1:49 am
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frankp -- 5/25/2011, 10:01 pm
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Carlos Martinez -- 5/21/2011, 11:33 am