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I was following the thread on the "puffin", few wweeks ago, but didn't had the time to post the following:
The puffin has a distinct shape that is sure to turn heads & hurt necks. I'm sure I would turn my head when/if I'll see one. I hope it will be on the water & not while driving.
the thing that made me drop my mouth is the recessed coaming. I'm currently building a "coho", & @ some point during the construction I went to a place where they sell & rent kayaks, to take measurments & make some drawings of hatches forms & locations, & skegs. that's the place I use to rent kayaks - it's called "water ways kayaks", & it's in Hollywood florida. I thought I should give the man the credit for the advice he gave me (following). his name is Jeff.
It's about the ability of eskimo roll a kayak. It goes like this:
lets take a common S&G, a c-17, coho, whatever.. What's the heigt from the inside bottom of the hull to the underside of the deck just behind the backrest ? in the coho it's 10", on the others I guess it's a similar number. The coaming adds about an inch.
For eskimo roll you need to lean back - alot! but the way the wooden coamings are constructed makes it harder/impossible for you to lean back far enough so it's harder for you to eskimo-roll, or maybe you can't do it @ all & you don't know why...
The solution is to drop the deck in a slope, few inches behind the coaming @ the back, & then put the coaming @ the bottom of the slope, the way it's done on the puffin.
with the puffin they did it all around, but eskimo-roll-wise it's enough to do it in the back.
While I consider this advice very smart, I didn't implemented it yet. My current coho is my first one & I want to paddle it a little before breaking it to pieces. I plan on implementing it along with TAKE-A-PART.
hope you find it useful
merry x-mas everybody
erez
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