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> I'll pussyfoot around a bit by saying that black flat round rubber hatches
> are an anathema to all kayaks.
> These machined round blotches of plastic and rubber make a grotesque
> mating with long flowing kayak lines. And to actually put them in
> conjunction with a material of character - as in strip, stitch and glue,
> or especially skin - results in jarring cacophonous visual abortions!
> On any kayak, but especially plastic ones, my immediate visual imagery is
> of a floating septic tank. They don't look too different. The curvaceous
> lines mutate into a cylindrical form with an access cover in the top.
> Horrible musings of olphactory terrors waft thru my mind.
> Aside from flat topped kayaks (works best for Bobby), the design
> implications of a round flat sizeable constraint, causes geometrical
> gymnastics that interrupt and disjuct the kayaks shape. In order to not
> catch spray, they have to be depressed, maybe the leading edge a bit more.
> (I scratch my head in amazement at Foster's kayaks)
> Leaving off the septic tank imagery and its nasty associations, are there
> any others?
> So how about garbage cans? Don't these hatches look like plastic garbage
> can lids?? How about building a nice Guillemot with a cool strip pattern
> and cutting a hole for a garbage can in the back and one in the front?
> Something doesn't fit here and it's obvious what it is.
> These black blobs of iniquity only belong on septic tanks and garbage
> cans.
> -mick
Don't hold back; say what's really on your mind! ;-)
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