tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61549134220100270752024-03-13T22:18:07.976-07:00Skinboat JournalThis blog is about various boat and environment related topics that I care to comment on. First and foremost, this blog is about skin on frame boats, their construction and use, as well as paddle and other stuff related to skin boat use.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.comBlogger369125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-43440520778061816892018-10-12T19:58:00.000-07:002018-10-12T19:58:01.268-07:00DormancyIf you were following this blog, you may have noticed that the frequency of posts has dropped to something like zero.<br />
Well don't despair. I still have ideas and an urge to type at my laptop and anyone out there able to tear themselves away from politics may find me back on the internet, only not writing on the topic of skinboats.<br />
Reasons for that are mainly that to say something useful on the topic means that I should still be involved with skinboats in some meaningful way. Truth is that I am not.<br />
Reasons for that are that we are disengaging ourselves from a fixed abode and shop and proximity to water, all of which have something to do with kayaking in skinboats.<br />
Going nomadic on dry land with minimal opportunity to mess with boats.<br />
That may change in the future, but for now, I am landbound.<br />
Soon as I think of new things to talk about, I will post a link to where that is so you can decide whether you want to bother going there and reading what I wrote.<br />
In the meantime, read back posts on this site. If you're like me, you'll discover things you might have read but forgot so old stuff will feel like new.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-76823425202809457732017-12-14T10:50:00.000-08:002017-12-14T10:50:29.871-08:00Why a SkinboatThere's no question mark in the title just like in Hillary Clinton's book What Happened because I'll tell you Why a Skinboat.<br />
There's also a reference to Why a Duck here, one of two jokes that I can remember, the other one starting with, a duck walks into a bar.<br />
But enough about sentences that start with Why and on to the real meat, the reason for building skinboats.<br />
There is more than one reason for building skinboats. I don't know what yours are, so I will tell you mine.<br />
Fundamentally, in the back of my mind, I like things that have a short supply chain, reason being that I distrust long supply chains. Just about everything these days has a long supply chain, but not everything, especially stuff you make yourself. Supply chains for those not steeped in the language of goods delivery are all about how stuff gets to the end user. Let's take something simple like a tee shirt. First someone needs to grow cotton which depends on farm implements and fertilizers. Next the cotton has to be turned into yarn. Then the cotton is spun into fabric. After that it is dyed, or maybe before and after that it is sewn into the finished garment which is then shipped to some distribution center from which it goes to the retail store where you buy it.<br />
And that is just a very simplified version of how you get your tee shirt. Every step along the way has more supply chains backing it. The chain is in fact more like an inverted tree in which you trace the path from every leaf up to the trunk.<br />
Skinboat technology appeals to me because it has a short supply chain, at least in the original cultures before the arrival of modern intruders into the Arctic. The person making the boat collected all the materials needed by himself and fashioned all the tools to make the thing by himself and with the help of other men and women of the village put a boat together.<br />
The boat builder could get everything he needed in his immediate environment which did not include stores or amazon.com. So why does this matter? It probably doesn't matter if you are comfortable with your reliance on industrial society to provide you with all the stuff that you need. <br />
I have to admit that I belong to the pessimist fringe that thinks it might be worthwhile to have some backup plans in case our industrial arrangement runs into problems.<br />
Ergo, I like to look for technologies that don't rely on a whole bunch of industrial technologies.<br />
And yes, I realize that the nylon string I use to tie my boats together with and the varnish I paint them with and the polyester skin I cover them with are all industrial products. Still, I feel that if I had to, I could make a kayak out of materials in my immediate environment.<br />
And quite frequently, people ask me why I don't use carbon fiber or whatever the latest development in materials is. I really can't find a reason that a person who is in love with modern technology would understand. So I just nod politely and tell them that I use carbon fiber and epoxy and whatever else on occasion in addition to power tools and electricity, & & for the sake of convenience.<br />
But the key thing I like about traditional technology is that it is possible to deploy it without modern tools and materials.<br />
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Sails on Aleut kayaks were used early on though probably copied from western sailing craft. Early sails were made of grass matting or skins though later of canvas. The sail was called sutu-x^. In Attuan, the sail made of skin was called chiyug^asi-x^. Sailing was done primarily down-wind which in Unangam Tunuu is slam chidug^-ag^i-i. The mast was called aqax^tayuuchi-x^. To sail was called chidux^-six^. When wind was calm or opposing the direction of travel, sails were taken down.<br />
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The mast was set into a mast step that was lashed to ribs adjacent to the keelson. The mast entered the hull through a sleeve sewn into the skin. The mast was probably also lashed to the deck beam to minimize stress on the skin.<br />
Sailing against the wind would have required lee boards and additional lines on the sail, encumbrances which the Aleuts apparently chose to avoid, probably because they weren't worth the trouble. <br />
Kayaks rigged with sails did, however, have a rudder which was controlled by the paddler in the rear cockpit. More details on that in a separate post. <br />
Although some single kayaks used sails, the sails were primarily used on doubles which were the preferred craft for hunting sea otters under the Russian regime.<br />
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This photo shows a group of paddlers in two-hole kayaks. The kayak farthest to the right looks like a three-hole kayak. In all cases, the mast is behind the front-most paddler. The sails are lowered and laying on the decks.<br />
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This kayak from an illustration by Elliot shows the sail in its raised position. Most likely, when the kayak was on land, the sail would have been lowered, but Elliot is allowed some license. The sail was raised and lowered by a line which went from the top of the sail through a hole or block at the top of the mast to a block on the deck. The line was controlled by the paddler in the rear cockpit. The illustration also shows the rudder. The rudder was controlled by a line which wrapped around the rear cockpit.<br />
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This photo shows kayaks on land. Spray skirts are tied at the middle and raised up by a stick to form conical tents that prevent rain from getting into the kayaks. The masts are acting as clothes poles to hang paddling jackets from.<br />
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This is the block through which the line runs that raises the sail. The line goes from the mast right behind the front-most cockpit down to the block and then back to the cockpit behind the sail where that paddler trims the sail.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-80943036550265857352017-01-19T07:14:00.002-08:002017-01-19T07:14:28.657-08:00Deck Load, the Bailing Pump, muunhma-x^, muunma-x^, puunpa-x^, liivira-x^, liivri-x^, chxuusi-x^Aleut kayakers carried bailing pumps or bailing tubes on the decks of their kayaks. To use the pumps, the kayaker would have to loosen the string that cinched the spray skirt around his chest and push the pump down along his chest down between his legs to the bilge of his kayak. Then he had to bend his head forward to suck up water into the pump, then stopper the bottom opening, lift the pump out of the cockpit and drain the contents of the pump over the side. I have not made one of these pumps but my experience with bottles is that when turned upside down, the contents run out, so most likely, the kayaker needed two hands to pull the pump out of the cockpit without having the water run out the bottom hole back into the bilge.<br />
The bailing pump also had to be sized to be about as long as the distance from the bottom of the boat to the chin of the paddler.<br />
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This drawing shows the type of bailing pump or tube that is shaped the same on both ends. The tube was usually carved out of red cedar in two halves which were separately hollowed out and then mated together and held together by three or more sections of twine.<br />
Names for the bailing tube varied from place to place and over time. The name puunpa-x^ appears to be an adaptation from the Russian word for pump. The Attuan names liivira-x^ and lliivri-x^ are derived from liv'er, the Russian word for siphon. The name chxuusi-x^ appears to be derived from chxu-x^, the name for sponge. This hints that the carved wooden tube is a late invention and that in the past, natural sea sponges were used to get water out of the bottom of kayaks.<br />
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As the model shows, the bailing pump slides under one of the deck lines of the kayak.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-43104310555905189462017-01-17T22:10:00.000-08:002017-01-19T06:17:23.865-08:00Chag^a-n, Charms and AmuletsFor the linguistically curious, chag^a-n (amulets) is the plural of chag^a-x^ (amulet). Charms and amulets probably varied quite a bit from one paddler to the next since they were probably a personal affair. What worked for one paddler would not necessarily work for the next. But let's look at some things that might have been charms.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This figure is made out of bone. It may have had inserts where the holes are in the eyes, chest and the chin. The chin probably had labrets. Who knows what was in the eyes. It has also been suggested that this figure may have been attached to a wooden hat. That might explain the slanted cut on the figure's own right side. The angle of the cut would match the slope of the side of the conical hat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The groove around the back of the head of this fellow may have had hair attached to it with a string, or maybe it was just a place to tie a string around so it could be worn around the neck.</td></tr>
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Whether any of these figures were carried in ditty bags is not known.<br />
There were other carved figures about the kayak though some had practical uses like cleats at the ends of deck lines that kept deck gear like paddles from slipping off the deck.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These sea otters were attached somewhere on the kayak, most likely not to deck lines but more likely to a vertical part of the kayak in its interior.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This drawing shows various otter carvings in use on kayaks some on deck lines, some not. The one on the top right was attached to the vertical brace inside the kayak that ran from the keelson to the deck stringer. Right underneath the figures is a cutaway of the deck showing the brace that maintains the distance between the keelson and the deck ridge.</td></tr>
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Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-65399136018012140822017-01-11T08:09:00.002-08:002017-01-11T08:44:26.311-08:00ug^ada-x^, the Aleut Kayaker's Sea Bag in Unangam TunuuI decided to fight my way through Knut Bergsland's <i>Aleut Kayak Terminology</i> a piece at a time. Rather than starting at the beginning with the kayak itself, I have decided to start near the end, not with the kayak itself but with the sea bag or ditty bag, ug^ada-x^ that an Aleut kayaker would carry with him inside his kayak. The ug^ada-x^ contained a bunch of small items that the kayaker would need to repair his kayak or clothing and also some items he would need to start a fire on shore.<br />
The terms listed here come from page 154 of <i>Contributions to Kayak Studies.</i><br />
For background on Bergsland see an<a href="http://skinboatjournal.blogspot.com/2012/09/unangan-aleut-kayak-terminology.html" target="_blank"> earlier post of mine</a> on this blog.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Bergsland's explanation of where his information came from. The key information here is the explanation of the abbreviations EA, AA, and Au for the principal Aleut dialects.</td></tr>
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I should mention that in drawing up the diagram of ditty bags and ditty bag contents, I did not have any images of what these things actually looked like. Bergsland mentions that the ditty bags were about two feet long. That's all I had to go on. Dry grass, yeah, we know what that looks like, but whether it was just in a lump or if people twisted it up, I don't know. Likewise, I don't know what Aleut fire drills looked like. They could be the type I showed which is a pump drill. But there are other types of fire drills. I drew a pump drill because Mike Livingston had students make these at Aleut Culture camps. Same goes for amulets and charms. They could be just about anything from a pebble to elaborately carved ivory. As for caul of baby, look that up. <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-2342789822947141842016-12-15T08:29:00.001-08:002016-12-15T08:29:14.433-08:00Handline Assembly for Kayak FishingHere's some info on the handline rig I've been using to fish from my kayak. I got the design from my friend Marc who introduced me to his fishing grounds. This kind of rig makes it possible to fish from a sit-inside kayak. You don't need a sit on top with rod holders, bait wells, fish hatches, etc. etc.<br />
Much of the complexity of commercially sold kayak fishing setups comes from the fact that the industry wants to sell gear. It's that simple, and guys being guys want to buy gear. But you don't need all that much gear.<br />
So here it is, the handline rig.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This photo shows the rig which consists of a wooden spool, 200 feet of 300lb braided spectra line, 8 feet of 60 pound mono leader, a 12 oz sinker assembly with swivel hooks followed by 4 feet of 40 pound mono leader snelled to a 5/0 circle hook.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is what the rig looks like set up for transportation. Fits nicely in a one gallon ziploc plastic bag. If the wire of the sinker assembly were a little shorter, it would store even better. This rig has 250 lb braided line with an 8 ounce sinker.</td></tr>
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And here's a schematic of the handline assembly. Some additional comments on the schematic. The 300 pound braided line comes in various lengths, but 100 meters is a good spool size, that's about 300 feet of line. You can wind half of that on your spool or even all of it, depending on how deep you want to fish. <br />
The spool itself is made out of wood. A scrap piece of one by six will do fine. Before you commit to any dimensions, try wrapping your hands around a length of wood that is 3/4" thick by 1-1/4" wide and has the edges rounded. If the wood needs to be wider or narrower to feel comfortable in your hand, adjust the dimensions on the spool accordingly. If the long dimension of the spool is longer than 8 inches, you need fewer turns to spool up the line when you're retrieving a fish. On the other hand, a longer dimension will put more torque on your wrist. <br />
The length of the sinker assembly, which consists of a piece of coat hanger or heavy gauge copper electrical wire with a sinker attached to it should be about the same as the length of your wooden spool. This makes it easier to wind up for storage. Weight of the sinker should be roughly one ounce for every ten feet of depth you are fishing. That would be 10 oz for 100 feet of line, for instance. Rate of drift and weight of main line also makes a difference. You want your line to be as vertical as possible so you can know how close you are to the bottom. This is where a drift chute comes in handy if there is a wind blowing. The drift chute slows down your kayak and allows the line to hang more vertical. Some drift is ok, but you don't want your line going out at 45 degrees.<br />
Snap swivels should have a breaking strength at least that of the lines they are tied to, in our case, at least 50 lbs. I bought some that were 150 lbs which is overkill. Overkill is ok sometimes, but the 150 lb wire snaps are pretty hard to get open with bare hands, especially cold bare hands. And carrying pliers in a kayak is a nuisance.<br />
The idea with this rig is that when you are fishing rock reefs where there is a possibility of snags, you want the leader to break and lose maybe your hook and bait but not your sinker. You can carry more snelled hooks and bait, but the sinkers assemblies are more bulky and you want to avoid losing them. Worst case, you snag the sinker and the 60 pound leader breaks, but you still have your main line.<br />
All the knots mentioned in the schematic can be found on the internet and youtube. I tried using a double uni knot to tie the 60 pound mono leader to the 300 pound but the mono line was too stiff in comparison to the braided line so that the knot didn't work and ended up using an Albright knot which worked fine. It takes a while to get the hang of some of these knots especially if you are watching a bad youtube or if you are working with stiff monofilament, but practice pays off.<br />
Thanks again to Marc who taught me this stuff.<br />
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And here's some fish caught by handline, lincod, and two rockfish. The little guy is bait herring. These guys were caught with octopus for bait.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-63643056396178696402016-12-14T07:53:00.000-08:002016-12-14T07:53:38.577-08:00A Gift of Lead<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Now that I've taken up kayak fishing, I need sinkers to attach to the ends of my lines. The other day, my wife and I were walking down the street in the direction of the local boat ramp and ran into a whole bunch of broken plastic laying in the street. Random litter we thought at first, but as it turned out, the litter was pieces of a plastic tackle box that had probably fallen off a boat that was being towed on a trailer away from the boat ramp. A little closer examination revealed a whole bunch of lead sinkers whose gray color camouflaged them very well against the background of gray asphalt. With my wife's help, I was able to fill two coat pockets with sinkers. I think I'm set for sinkers for a while and some unlucky fisherman needs to get him a bunch more.<br />
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<br />Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-43255302356103861062016-09-14T06:58:00.001-07:002016-09-14T06:58:09.092-07:0014 Foot Baidarka Rebuild - New Ribs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
In the last segment of this series, I took everything off the boat that it didn't need. In this segment, I'm putting in new ribs. And I should mention that I didn't break any ribs. I was very careful to not use any of the rib stock that had grain runout. Straight grain the the bending stock is the best insurance against breakage. The rib stock was white oak. Adequate soaking time is also important as is good heat in the steambox. Let's look at some pictures.</div>
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Here's the steam setup, an electric wallpaper steamer with about a gallon of water in it. The hose coming out of the steamer goes in the back of the steambox which is nothing more than a plywood box with a towel hung over the front end. The towel allows for a good flow of steam through the box without letting out too much heat.<br />
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The ribs have been soaked in water for several days. Here they are cut to working length which is about 10 inches longer than the distance between the gunwales at their respective new homes. All the ribs are marked with a number to minimize confusion when several ribs are in the steambox at the same time.<br />
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Here's my adjustable bending jig for the ribs. The left wing is stationary and the right wing moves to the needed width.<br />
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At any one time, I have three ribs in the steamer. Steam time is not specific, The rightmost rib is the one pulled first, New ribs are fed in on the left so there are always three ribs in the box. By the time the leftmost rib gets to the right, it is ready to bend. In the meantime, I am clamping the active rib into the bending jig, letting it sit for about a minute to cool down, then removing it, clamping it into the boat and resetting the jig for the next rib.<br />
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Here are all the new ribs clamped in place. Next I eyeball the ribs from the ends of the boat to make sure they are all clamped in symmetrically. Then I mark them and trim them to their final length and pop them into their mortises.<br />
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Once the ribs are all in place, I let them sit overnight to dry out and take a permanent set. Then I number them. Next day, I pull the ribs out and stain and varnish them which is much easier to do while the ribs are out of the boat than when they are lashed into place.<br />
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Here's all the ribs in place but not lashed yet. Note that the keelson kicks to the right at the tail end of the boat. We will be fixing that in the next installment of the 14 foot rebuild.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-39874919665067378002016-09-09T07:28:00.000-07:002016-09-09T07:28:45.071-07:00Deckline Mods to my Sixteen Foot Baidarka to Facilitate FishingAfter going out fishing in my 16 foot baidarka I decided to make some mods to the decklines to make it a better fishing boat. The mods were not extensive but addressed two particular aspect of the existing rigging that could be improved. One mod improved the ability to stow paddles on the foredeck. The other mod improved my ability to get out of the boat quickly after landing on the beach. Let's go to the pictures.<br />
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This photo shows a new addition, a longish piece of wood on the left (port) side of the boat. This used to be a feature on Unangan kayaks. The piece of wood protects the skin from chafing by the fishing line when fisherman pulls in a fish. Chafing of the skin is probably not as big a deal with a synthetic fabric skin as it is with a sea lion skin, but I thought it might be a good idea to have this feature in any case.<br />
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Deck toggles, the two rectangular piece of wood on either side of the kayak are used to tighten up the deck lines that hold spare paddles in place on the deck. I moved these closer to the front of the cockpit for easier access.<br />
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Here's a closeup of another deck toggle roughly in the shape of a little sea creature. This is meant to keep a paddle from sliding off the deck when the paddle is just laid on the deck instead of being tucked under the deck lines.<br />
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One of the problems when landing in surf is the timing of the waves. Even if you time the waves coming in and come in on the back of a wave and make a smooth beach landing, you have to get out of the kayak quickly because the next wave is coming in and is likely to pull you back into the surf. This is especially problematic on steep beaches. With the size of this cockpit and with a lap full of fish, jumping out of the kayak is not easy. I have to hoist myself up onto the back deck so I can step out of the cockpit. I do this by placing my hands on the gunwales back of the cockpit and raising myself up. Unfortunately, the deck is sloped an my hands tent to slide off, so I added toggles in back of the cockpit for a better grip.<br />
If you're paying attention, you will also notice that I added another rub guard on the starboard side of the cockpit. I thought that might also help with getting in and out of the boat.<br />
And finally, I ran another line between the two deck toggles to keep them from sliding off the edge of the gunwales when I'm hoisting myself out of the cockpit. I tested all this on the ground. I have yet to try it out on the water where it counts.<br />
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And finally, I formalized the padding in the cockpit. Previously I just had a foam pad in the bottom of the boat. I still only have a foam pad on the bottom of the boat, but now I cut it in half and doubled up on the bottom and tied it to the ribs and I also added a piece of foarm as a backrest. This should help with sitting for hours while fishing. <br />
More on the water testing is forthcoming. Stay tuned.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-19501643507714442002016-09-07T09:09:00.000-07:002016-09-07T09:09:23.711-07:00Handlining from a KayakTwo kayak fishermen took me out fishing with them. I was under the impression that to fish from a kayak you needed lots of gear like rod-holders and landing nets and places to put fish in case you caught some etc. etc. Turns out that according to my mentors, you don't need most of that stuff. You don't need rod holders because you don't need a rod and reel to fish from a kayak. A kayak puts you right on top of the fish and so you don't need a rod to fling your bait or lure out away from your kayak to where the fish are. The fish are under you and so you just lower the line with the bait into the water below you and the fish bite on your bait. It's that simple. The reason this works is that the fish are some distance below you and so they are not spooked as they would be if you just had six feet of water under you. When you have 100 feet of water under you the fish can't see you.<br />
So we went fishing and caught fish. The reason we caught fish is that one of my mentors had a gps that took us back to a reef where he had caught fish before. His electronic gizmo also had sonar that showed him what the bottom looks like. We were going for rock fish which hang out over rocks. If you're fishing where there are no fish, you catch no fish. Most likely you blame yourself or your bait but the real reason you caught no fish is that you were fishing where there were no fish. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our put-in point on a shelf some fifty feet above the beach. Portaging of the kayaks was required.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My host's fish counter. The leg of the string on the left is total fish caught. The leg on the right tracks a different species that has a different limit from the run of the mill rockfish.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rig, 300 pound braided line with a lead weight and some hooks wound on a wooden spool. What could be simpler?</td></tr>
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I should mention something that I noticed before when starting to fish with my canoe is that fishing changes your relationship with your boat and the place where you take your boat out. Fishing, in this case changed my view of my kayak as a means of putting me into the ocean's food chain, one step above the rock fish but still one step below the sharks that live in the Pacific. As a consequence, I made some mods to my kayak to make it a better fishing boat. More on that in a separate post.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-35321264558069469092016-08-15T08:32:00.002-07:002016-08-15T08:32:57.678-07:00Moses Dirks Reads out Aleut Kayak Parts in Unangam TunuuHere's a video of Moses Dirks reading out the names of Aleutian Kayak parts in Unangam Tunuu, the Aleut language. The names and the kayak parts are linked in the picture below for reference. The video was made at the Aleutian Pribiloff Islands Association Urban Culture Camp in Anchorage in 2010.<br />
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<br />Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-89328921222310113332016-08-15T08:15:00.000-07:002016-08-15T08:15:11.933-07:00Fourteen Foot Baidarka RebuildThis particular boat suffered the indignity of shrinking skin which caved in a good percentage of its ribs. So I decided that it was time to rebuild the boat. Aside from replacing damaged ribs, I also wanted to elevate the rear deck and make the cockpit coaming level. I had lowered the rear deck to make rolling the boat easier but as it turned out, lowering the back deck simply made it harder to get good back support. So on with the pictures.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What happened was that the nylon skin shrank to such an extent in the hot California sun that it caved in the ribs. Not only did the shrinking skin recurve the ribs, it broked them. A few ribs at either end of the boat survived.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Slitting the stitching on the deck.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Slitting the lashings around the coaming which hold the skin to the coaming.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The skin has been slit all around, ready to pull it off.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Except for the ribs, the hull is in mostly good shape.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first step in getting the bad ribs out is to unlash them from the keelson..</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tail fin is looking a bit ragged. It was made out of plywood and I decided to replace it with redwood.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For some reason I added a deck beam for better foot support without taking the other deck beam out. So that deck beam toward the front had to come out.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here,s the stuff I took off the boat, coaming, coaming stanchions, tail fin and both the fore and aft deck stringers. I took off the deck stringers just to make putting the new ribs in easier.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's the extra deck beam removed and all the bad ribs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I already added a new tail fin.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There's the hull stringers hanging out in space waiting for support from a new set of ribs.</td></tr>
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Next we will be bending some new ribs, followed by some painting and varnishing and relashing all the stuff that came off during the deconstruction. Stay tuned.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-84001322324079944732016-08-10T12:29:00.001-07:002016-08-10T12:29:49.181-07:00What Are Your Favorite Skin-Boat Related Websites and Blogs?I'm trying to fill out my list of skin-boat related blogs and websites that have useful information for would-be kayak builders. If you have any favorites, feel free to list them in the comments. Feel free to suggest sites even if they are related to canoes or any other small boat building practices. I will check them out and add them to the list on my website and to the blog roll and like box on this blog. Thank you.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-65193582824645957162016-08-08T08:34:00.001-07:002016-08-08T08:38:22.549-07:00Overhaul the Playboat, Part 7There's one more part of the playboat overhaul that I should document and that is the relocation of the deck beam at the back of the cockpit after I had already put the skin on the boat. Messing with the frame is best done when the skin is off the boat, but it wasn't until after I put the finished boat in the water and paddled it that I discovered that it would be better if the back deck beam were a few inches farther back so it would line up with the back of the coaming . The main problem was that since it didn't line up with the back of the coaming, it jabbed into my back when I was paddling. It's one of those things that don't reveal themselves till you actually use the boat, kind of like too tight shoes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The back of the cockpit is on the right. You can see the deck beam that supports the back of the coaming sticking out a good three inches in front of the coaming's back. Had to fix that.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's what the fix looked like from the outside when done. I had to cut the skin to get at the three stainless steel screws that were holding the deckbeam in place against the gunwales. I had to do this surgery on both sides of the frame. Once I had the screws out, I had to cut the pegs and lashings that secured the deck beam to the deck stringers. Once the deckbeam was free, I trimmed it down to fit farther back in the boat and re-attached it to the gunwales. What you see here is the net result. The deck beam is still held in place by three screws. Two of them under the skin flap that I glued back down and one off to the right of the skin flap screwed right through the skin.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's the view of the relocated deck beam from inside the boat looking up. That red piece of wood at the top is a carlin that supports the side of the coaming. The exposed wood shows where the deckbeam used to sit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of the surgery on the other side of the boat. I also had to add a support for the carlin, nailed it to the edge of the deck beam with bronze ring nails.</td></tr>
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And that should be the end of coverage for this kayak remodel unless some other thing comes up that I haven't discovered yet.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-34855725658247291132016-08-02T10:16:00.000-07:002016-08-02T10:16:00.471-07:00 Overhaul the Playboat, Part 6Skipping part 5 which is where I decided to add a King Island style nose to the kayak. The point of this was to elevate the bow to minimize water coming over the bow in oncoming waves. No pictures of that process available though you can see the end result here.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Viewing from back to front, fog bank hanging over the west end of San Francisco, San Francisco downtown skyline, salt marsh, tidal pond, chain link fence, and finally the newly varnished playboat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">closeup on the foredeck with faux sealskin paint splatter.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the rear deck.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little better side view showing extensions to the hull, a foot in the bow and another foot in the stern making the finished boat 12 feet over the original 10.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The nose, like some menacing sea creature.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View inside the cockpit with detail of spray painted frame and seam in the skin pieced in two parts.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Time has passed, the grass has dried out and the playboat is awaiting its first trip on the water.</td></tr>
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Postscript: I launched the boat, found that the back deck beam in the cockpit was digging in my back and so I moved it back a few inches to make the boat more comfortable. Also needed to put more sealant on the seams since they were still taking on water. In spite of the extra two feet, the boat is still pretty low volume for someone my size. Were I to build another 12 footer from scratch, I would make the stern beamier and raise the bow some more. The End.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-66139060300447314842016-08-01T23:07:00.000-07:002016-08-01T23:07:16.000-07:00Overhaul the Playboat, Part 4As promised, I took a can of red spray paint and loosely misted the flat desert storm camo paint I had put on the frame of the playboat. Made it look a whole lot more traditional. Photos below.<br />
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All this by the way happened way back in February as evidenced by the green grass and yellow flowers. But there's still more to come. The playboat is going to get a nose-job and a skin. Can't wait to share.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-41383530438318350292016-07-29T08:14:00.000-07:002016-07-29T08:14:39.343-07:00New Blog about Nomadic Stuff<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I've started a new blog titled nomadic life since thematically my experimentation with yurts and tents and other like activities does not seem to fit into the skinboat category. The blog is wolfgangnomadic.blogspot.com if you want to add it to your places to hang out on the internet.<br />
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Click <a href="http://wolfgangnomadic.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a> to go there right now.<br />
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For now the new blog is mostly about yurts, but I am starting to experiment with North African style tents and if I have any thoughts on nomadic lifestyles in general, you will also be able to find them there. Read the first entry if you want to find out why the blog address is wolfgangnomadic and not something more reasonable like nomadiclife or such.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No need to have a roof on the yurt most of the time since it hardly ever rains in the desert. A chenille bed spread does very nicely for shade.</td></tr>
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<br />Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-79948409661303393082016-02-29T11:00:00.001-08:002016-02-29T11:00:20.640-08:00Two Canoe PaddlesThese paddles are replicas of a paddle in the George W. Brown Jr. Ojibwe Museum & Cultural Center in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. <span style="color: #663300; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Link </span><a href="http://www.ldfmuseum.com/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="color: #663300; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">. </span><br />
The original was a very nice specimen carved from maple. It was in pristine condition, possibly made for sale but never sold. The paddles are longer than typical canoe paddles you now see. It was probably made for the stern paddler who could use a longer paddle for steering.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The handles, flipside. Note the paddle on the right has a frowny carving on one side and a smiley carving on the other.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The grain on the other blade. The middle lamination has something like 60 growth rings per inch. Very old and slow growth. This paddle by the way is newer than the other one, hence its pinker color. The color deepens with exposure to light.</td></tr>
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Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-69396856561844123512016-02-29T10:33:00.003-08:002016-02-29T10:33:50.891-08:00Overhaul the Playboat, Part 3Part three of the overhaul, new lashings for the keelson and a paint job for the frame was relatively easy. Not much thinking or design choices required. The lashing went fast. The painting took way longer than I imagined, about 3 hours. Next time I will have to pull out a spray gun.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And finally a coat of Desert Storm tan camo latex paint that was left over from painting a whole bunch of tin sheds and free for the taking. It's butt-ugly, but I'm going to get some red spray paint and spiff it up some. Can't paddle a boat that might be miffed at you for painting it ugly. That would be dangerous. Never piss off your boat. Your life is in its hands.</td></tr>
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Next brighten up the paint on the frame and then put on some skin and paint that.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-35677703434536137102016-02-28T06:54:00.002-08:002016-02-28T06:54:45.959-08:00Overhaul the Playboat, Part TwoYesterday I got in a full day on the playboat. Let's backtrack. The lashings on the playboat were rotting from too much sun. So I decided to strip the skin off the boat and redo the lashings. Soon as the skin was off the boat, ideas arose. Let's stretch the boat two feet by adding an Unangan style nose and tail to it, thereby increasing volume (with me in it the stern was frequently under water) and improving its tracking, making it more suitable to SF Bay paddling than its original configuration. So part 2 is mostly about adding the nose and tail to the original boat and replacing two deck beams. Still haven't tackled the relashing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To get the right shape for the nose piece, I clamped two slats to the gunwales then laid a piece of plywood over the top and traced lines inside the slat to transfer the shape to the piece of plywood.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here are the lines for the new nose piece.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new nose piece installed. I also rounded the bottom edge of the nose piece.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A view of the nose piece from the bottom.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> I added two pieces of new wood right behind the nose piece to fair the top into the gunwales.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's the ragged deck beam that needed replacing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And here's its replacement.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The backrest also needed replacing. Here it is detached from the gunwales. The original problem was that someone had sat down on it too hard and cracked the dowels that attached it to the gunwales.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new backrest in place. The wider shoulders give it more contact with the gunwales and hopefully make it harder to break off from the gunwales. I also used three screws on each end instead of the dowels I used previously.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new nose piece in place.</td></tr>
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End notes: Still to go, relashing and painting of the frame and sewing on a new skin and painting that.</div>
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Not mentioned so far, the trick with redoing the boat was to make the new shape such that the boat would trim properly with the skin on. Since the boat sat a little low in the back for my weight, I figured that the extra volume in the stern would rectify that, provided that I didn't add too much extra volume in the bow. We won't know till I put the new skin on and float this boat. </div>
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As for materials used in the overhaul, the new nose and tail pieces are redwood for rot resistance. Moisture seems to linger longer in the two ends of the boat. The backrest replacement was made of white ash that I salvaged off a discarded bed frame. White ash is strong though not necessarily very rot resistant, but since was right at the cockpit, it should have a chance to dry out better than the wood in the ends of the boat. In any case, the boat should be good for another ten years.</div>
Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-65410597445059720212016-02-25T09:02:00.000-08:002016-02-25T09:02:02.427-08:00Put a Bird on ItHere at Alameda Point, we like to put a bird on it. Every spring, the birds come in and get ready to nest and then they nest and then there's baby birds. It's put a bird on it time, island style.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great blue herons, mallards and coots.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don't have time to look up the name of this one.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great blues up in the Monterey cypress they have chosen as their nesting trees. They re-use the nests.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And of course, Canada Geese.<br /></td></tr>
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Make it better, put a bird on it.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-17336606290112493532016-02-25T08:51:00.000-08:002016-02-25T08:51:00.795-08:00Time to Overhaul the PlayboatI decided it was time to overhaul the playboat. Main reason being that the sunlight had deteriorated the lashings in the cockpit area. The skin was still OK. As I often do, I used materials in this boat that I haven't used before to see how they hold up. And the lashings which were done in cheap poly-unbraided string had gotten eaten by the sun. So, strip off the skin and proceed. This is part one of the series showing what the frame looked like after I pulled off the skin. Subsequent parts will show repairs and overhauls.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here''s the skin pulled off the boat, actually cut off. I won't reuse it. It's nylon which shrinks when the sun shines on it. I aim to replace it polyester.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The boat sans skin, defrocked, naked. Goose pond and SF skyline in the background along with US Govt. cyclone fence separating us from the federal land.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deteriorated lashings - the primary reason for rework.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CGshyH607Rs/Vs8tZAcGmqI/AAAAAAAADRc/POumXq-1MwM/s1600/DSC01663.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CGshyH607Rs/Vs8tZAcGmqI/AAAAAAAADRc/POumXq-1MwM/s320/DSC01663.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Though the wood has gotten ragged and the varnish deteriorated, the lashings are still good where they weren't exposed to the sun.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With outdoor storage, spiders move in, hence the cobwebs. Also note doweled stringer come loose with dowels working their way out of their holes. Needs to be backed up with lashings, or heavens forbid, screws.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's the fuzzy wood look that wood gets when repeatedly exposed to water. This is pine. Doug fir and redwood which I also used in this boat do not get this disease.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally, for aesthetic reasons, I decided to put a bird on it.</td></tr>
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And another version of Put a bird on it!</div>
Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-40995478421204208182016-02-22T11:16:00.002-08:002016-02-22T11:16:31.941-08:00Shoe Lasts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I've been wanting to make some shoes out of fabric and tried just draping fabric over my feet and marking and cutting and sewing, but that approach was cumbersome and inaccurate, mostly because if you are trying to fit your own feet, you can only do it bent over in an uncomfortable way. So I did some research and found out that the right way to make shoes is to first construct a pair of lasts, that is wooden models of your feet that you can then use to assemble fabric over the same way that a dressmaker uses a mannequin.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's my first attempt at a pair of lasts. They are made of redwood and red cedar, what I had laying around and what was easy to carve. Professional lasts are made of a European relative of beechwood. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of the lasts. I have also sliced the lasts into two pieces for easier removal from the shoes. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glueing up redwood two by fours to get sufficient elevation.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Added a block on the side to get adequate width for the lasts.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My feet traced out on pieces of 1/8th inch plywood. Next step was to trace around the foot patterns and then start carving to match my feet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last sitting on the fabric which will form the soles of my new shoes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Foot patterns with notations indicating elevation of my feet at various points.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can't see much here, but I'm draping some felt over a last so I can mark a pattern on the felt to cut out.</td></tr>
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So now I'm on my second iteration of the lasts. A last is not actually an accurate copy of your feet but more of a mold for the shoes you intend to make. As such it needs to be slightly longer than your feet to account for toe room. It also needs to be a little taller than your feet to account for insoles or padding and socks that you will have inside the shoes in addition to your feet. And if you want to make pointy-toed shoes, you will want a different last than if you want to make a round-toed shoe and so on. And if your two feet are not exactly symmetrical, you have the luxury of making custom lasts that let you have shoes that not only are different lengths but also heights and widths. Still learning.Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154913422010027075.post-52707546635725725342016-02-22T10:46:00.000-08:002016-02-22T10:46:14.905-08:00Hand Crank Sewing MachineLast week we got a hand crank sewing machine at the friends of the Oakland Museum White Elephant sale. It's the head off a Singer 127 treadle machine removed from its treadle base with a hand crank screwed onto the end. Simple. Works. It still runs smooth in spite of being close to a hundred years old. We already have a number of sewing machines but we wanted to have one that we could take on the road and use in camping spots where there was no electricity. We probably could have simply brought needles and thread, but a machine offers some speed advantages. Plus the fact that the machine has already lasted a hundred years speaks well for its ruggedness. The main downside of the machine is its weight, an unavoidable consequence of its cast iron body. But we'll see how it works in the field once we start using it there. The other thing that speaks well for the longevity of this machine is that it's still possible to get spare parts for it.<br />
Report on use of the machine in the field to follow.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's the machine sitting on its base. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hand crank is attached to the body of the machine near the base.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The crank is linked to the hand wheel by a little tab that sticks between two spokes of the wheel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the front plates pulled out to expose the shuttle which holds the bobbin. Unlike modern machines where the shuttle is round, this one is bullet shaped and swings back and forth in an arc instead to going in a circle like the modern ones. Actually, both kinds oscillate, only this one goes through a smaller section of a full circle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's the shuttle freed of the machine. The bobbin slides into the body of the shuttle from the left.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bobbin winding mechanism. The thread guide travels on the heart shaped cam and wags back and forth, distributing the thread evenly along the length of the bobbin.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bobbin in place on the winder with lovely blue thread being would on it.</td></tr>
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<br />Wolfgang Brinckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08314364206955412017noreply@blogger.com0