Archive for the ‘Kayaks’ Category

Smooth-Sailing, Successful Surface Modeling

Rasmussen, too, emphasizes that the Flyak is a highly specialized racing vessel that requires a good deal of skill and endurance from the kayaker: “The total weight of the kayaker and hull dictate the area of the foil pair. Kayakers with a high level of fitness can use smaller foils, and thereby reach higher speeds,” [...]

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A New Project Begins

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Hi there all,
I am about to begin a building project of a stich and glue Kayak.
I wanted to share the experiance, first a little bit of back ground.
I have built a few small craft a dingy or two and wanted to build my own design of a strip plank Kayak, it is still under construction [...]

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Commuter Kayaks Los Angeles River > The LaLa Times: California Satire, Weird and Bizarre News

Commuter Kayaks Los Angeles River > The LaLa Times: California Satire, Weird and Bizarre News
What California commuter hasn’t ever had the urge to just walk away from traffic entirely? Well, George Calvarescu found a way to kayak away from it all.

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YostWerks Updates

I managed to miss the updates, but here they are: Yostwerks Kayak Building Manuals.
Tom now has a few more designs and quite a bit of detail on building an inflatable kayak.  The new Expedition looks pretty cool and a bit more stable.  I’ll have to hunt around and see if anyone has built one yet.

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Off topic, Piano bench

I’m in the process of building a piano bench for my daughter to raffle off for a fund raiser for the home school music coop. Here’s a picture of it nearly done. Still to go is hinge and lid support and two more coats of tung oil. The bench is made of [...]

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New Kayak

I bought a new kayak, a plastic one this time. It’s a 10 foot pelican sink, got it for fishing as it has a bunch of room inside. Here’s a picture of the fish and you can see a bit of the boat in the background. My current thoughts on this boat [...]

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Trailer Progress.

I managed to brave the heat and put the rack on the trailer this afternoon. Here’s what it looks like, remember you can click on the picture for more.

The rack is attached with eye bolts and does not modify the trailer.
Later..
Tony

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GeekChow, Kibble for Geeks

Great site to keep up on what geeky things are considered most important.. Oh yeah, you can vote on the ones you like too.
GeekChow

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Back at it!

Sorry for the time between posts, but life kinda got in the way. Latest good news is that I got a new Pick-up truck. My Toyota Tacoma.

Bad news is now I need a way to transport the kayaks.. Good news is I bought a trailer..
More on that in the next post..
So, What [...]

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Kayaking en España

Carlos just sent me this message..
Hola
puedes cambiar mi link ??
antes era http://diariokayak.iespana.es/
y ahora es
www.diariodekayak.es
gracias, Carlos
OK, translation:
Hello,
Can you change my link?
It was http://diariokayak.iespana.es/
and now it is
http://www.diariodekayak.es
Thank you, Carlos
De nada Carlos,
¡Si! Yo puedo y ahora este link (derecho) es bueno.
Recuedar, cede el derecho de paso.
Tony

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