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Re: Wide sterns

Posted By: Nick Schade-Guillemot Kayaks
Date: Thursday, 20 June 2002, at 8:56 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Wide sterns (Tapio Manner)

: I have an almost exact (from Zimmerly) copy of an aleutian baidarka (in
: composites) with transom and all. Even with fairly heavy load the transom
: is actually above water line, so water line is quite conventional.

That was sort of my reasoning for trying the transom stern on my boat. People have said that the traditional Baidarkas had a transom like stern, but I thought it was really fairly conventional below the waterline. I wanted to see what it would be like with a stern that really had a transom.

Messages In This Thread

Wide sterns
sam McFadden -- Saturday, 15 June 2002, at 9:03 p.m.
Re: Wide sterns
Hans Friedel -- Monday, 17 June 2002, at 1:09 a.m.
Re: Wide sterns
Sam McFadden -- Monday, 17 June 2002, at 3:57 p.m.
Re: Wide sterns *Pic*
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- Monday, 17 June 2002, at 10:20 a.m.
Re: Wide sterns
Sam McFadden -- Monday, 17 June 2002, at 4:01 p.m.
Re: Wide sterns
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- Monday, 17 June 2002, at 4:19 p.m.
Re: Wide sterns
mike allen ---> -- Monday, 17 June 2002, at 6:58 p.m.
Re: Wide sterns
Nick Schade-Guillemot Kayaks -- Tuesday, 18 June 2002, at 9:09 a.m.
Re: Wide sterns
Greg Jones -- Tuesday, 18 June 2002, at 3:30 p.m.
Mariner's legacy
Sam McFadden -- Tuesday, 18 June 2002, at 4:19 p.m.
Re: Mariner's legacy
Greg Jones -- Tuesday, 18 June 2002, at 8:48 p.m.
Re: Mariner's legacy
Sam McFadden -- Wednesday, 19 June 2002, at 12:22 a.m.
Re: Wide sterns
Nick Schade-Guillemot Kayaks -- Wednesday, 19 June 2002, at 9:22 a.m.
Re: Wide sterns
Hans Friedel -- Wednesday, 19 June 2002, at 5:12 p.m.
Re: hydrofoil
Nick Schade-Guillemot Kayaks -- Wednesday, 19 June 2002, at 7:21 p.m.
Re: hydrofoil
Hans Friedel -- Thursday, 20 June 2002, at 1:16 a.m.
Re: Wide sterns
Tapio Manner -- Thursday, 20 June 2002, at 4:29 a.m.
Re: Wide sterns
Nick Schade-Guillemot Kayaks -- Thursday, 20 June 2002, at 8:56 a.m.
Fiberglass Baidarka
Greg Jones -- Thursday, 20 June 2002, at 9:57 a.m.
Re: Fiberglass Baidarka
Tapio Manner -- Thursday, 20 June 2002, at 3:51 p.m.
Re: Fiberglass Baidarka
Bob McIlvaine -- Friday, 21 June 2002, at 11:53 a.m.

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