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Re: S&G: Seeking data on Pygmy Goldeneye/Osprey
By:Lia
Date: 12/23/2015, 1:17 am

Thanks, Sod! I'm definitely going to try out the Coho, Arctic Tern 17, and Murrelet along with the Osprey. I have the numbers from the Sea Kayaker reviews for the other boats ... just not the Osprey / Goldeneye. I do know that I won't really see what the boats are truly like until I can make my way to Port Townsend to try them ... but doing comparisons, crunching numbers, and charting things in a spreadsheet just makes me happy, and is something I enjoy while biding my time.

I'm not wanting an expedition-level amount of volume, though I would like to be able to do a long-weekend kayak camping trip now and then.

Also, there is a part of me that is really interested in building from plans, lofting from the offsets etc ... and if I build a Pygmy, I'll have to do either the Goldeneye or the Queen Charlotte if I want to build from plans. So I'd just like a look at the numbers, so I can compare to the other Pygmys in my geeky little spreadsheet world, lol. I also have the One Ocean kayaks that I was able to calculate resistance numbers for due to the designer providing all the needed values on his website. That One Ocean Cirrus looks pretty amazing as well ...

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S&G: Seeking data on Pygmy Goldeneye/Osprey
Lia -- 12/22/2015, 3:33 am
Re: S&G: Seeking data on Pygmy Goldeneye/Osprey
bsoderholm -- 12/23/2015, 12:05 am
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Lia -- 12/23/2015, 1:17 am
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Rober W -- 12/23/2015, 11:36 am
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Paul MacIntyre -- 12/23/2015, 9:45 pm
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Lia -- 12/23/2015, 10:12 pm
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bsoderholm -- 12/23/2015, 11:08 pm
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Lia -- 12/23/2015, 11:35 pm
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Glenn -- 12/24/2015, 3:34 pm
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Lia -- 12/25/2015, 12:47 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 12/25/2015, 4:41 am
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Etienne Muller -- 12/25/2015, 8:19 am
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Robert W -- 12/25/2015, 8:54 am
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bsoderholm -- 12/25/2015, 9:30 am
speed of hull designs
Randy Knauff -- 12/29/2015, 1:42 pm
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Lia -- 12/29/2015, 2:27 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/30/2015, 1:43 am
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Etienne Muller -- 12/30/2015, 4:47 am
Re: Personal BIAS
Marc Upchurch -- 12/30/2015, 6:31 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/31/2015, 1:19 am
Re: S&G: Seeking data on Pygmy Goldeneye/Osprey
Randy Knauff -- 12/27/2015, 9:33 pm
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Lia -- 12/28/2015, 11:58 pm
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Randy Knauff -- 12/29/2015, 1:20 pm
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Lia -- 12/29/2015, 1:34 pm
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Lia -- 12/31/2015, 4:19 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/1/2016, 9:11 am
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Lia -- 1/5/2016, 9:47 pm