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Re: Jay: offer design options for sale?
By:Jay Babina
Date: 1/18/2013, 9:09 am
In Response To: Jay: offer design options for sale? (Howie)

Modifying the OI is like modifying a Jaguar XKE or any great classic. No doubt many people sometimes want shorter and often much more maneuverable boats but then have to strap on a skeg to make it paddle well. The reason I haven't because it's actually so easy to raise the deck if that's what somebody wants. It would be easy for me to design a shorter and more maneuverable boat but does the world need another one? No boat is everything to everyone unless you do the same things all the time and I get a lot of favorable notes from paddlers who own OIs. But the suggestion is well noted and perhaps I should include a higher deck option built right into the same set of plans and a larger cockpit option too.

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Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
James -- 12/21/2012, 8:58 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Sean Dawe -- 12/21/2012, 9:05 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
James -- 12/21/2012, 10:00 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Jay Babina -- 12/22/2012, 9:06 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Etienne Muller -- 12/22/2012, 10:42 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Bill Hamm -- 12/27/2012, 12:56 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 12/22/2012, 12:45 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Paul Sylvester -- 12/22/2012, 8:25 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island *PIC*
Oliver -- 12/22/2012, 8:37 am
Re: Strip: Raising --Off Topic??
Paul Sylvester -- 12/22/2012, 8:48 am
Re: Strip: Raising --Off Topic??
Oliver -- 12/22/2012, 10:53 am
Re: Strip: Raising --Off Topic??
dave mckinney -- 12/22/2012, 9:21 pm
Re: Strip: Raising --Off Topic??
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 12/23/2012, 10:59 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Robert Horstmann -- 12/31/2012, 11:49 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Howie -- 1/11/2013, 10:14 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
John Abercrombie -- 1/11/2013, 11:53 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Bill Hamm -- 1/11/2013, 1:36 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Howie -- 1/11/2013, 2:35 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Bill Hamm -- 1/13/2013, 1:48 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Howie -- 1/13/2013, 3:38 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
John Abercrombie -- 1/13/2013, 5:36 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
dave mckinney -- 1/11/2013, 7:54 pm
Jay: offer design options for sale?
Howie -- 1/13/2013, 3:27 pm
Re: Jay: offer design options for sale?
Jay Babina -- 1/18/2013, 9:09 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Dennis -- 12/23/2012, 9:27 am