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News from February 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008, 1 comments
Today there was a short break between the winter gales. Maybe I am influenced by paddling absintence but I cannot remember a winter this windy. The last two weeks the predictions have been over 20 knots constantly. The relative lull of 15 knots today was a welcome surprice, and must of course be used. So I turned off the computer and launched at Lomma for an hour and a half of workout, surf and rolling.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 1 comments
”Hi Björn!
Here are a couple of photos from our show "vatten-nära" (close-to-water) at the Tanum municipal hall on the swedish west coast. With the help of local newspapers there has been great interest. mediaMed hjälp av de lokala tidningarna har utställningen rönt ett stort intresse. Photos and text complement the kayaks to inspire to paddling as well as building your own kayak, and give information on the building process and where to get plans.
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Monday, February 25, 2008, 3 comments
Jean Betts from USA built a SOF at Anders Thygesen in Norway i Norge last summer, participated in Nigel Foster´s Bohuslän-tour and the Stocken kayak Meeting 2007, and has documented in beautiful photos a summer well spent.
Here are links to photos from the events and here a direct link to the photos from the kayak meeting.
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Friday, February 22, 2008, 14 comments
Joe Harmon Design in Usa are building a fast sports car in wood laminate. 600 Hp V8 in 1100 kg maple and plywood means top class performance. A number of new ideas: suspension, fire wall and parts of the wheels in wood laminate. A seating position moving the engine closer to the center of gravity, a muffler that doubles as a wing etc...
No production is planned – the project is a scholastic endeavour exploring materials, learn, teach, share ideas, and stimulate creativity.
Photos from the prototype building
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Thursday, February 21, 2008, 3 comments
Of course, if there is a need, there are solutions. This might be one...
Wouldn´t be impossible to translate into wood strip - someone?
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Sunday, February 17, 2008, 3 comments
En snabbt beslutad bassängövning - bristen på badtider i regionen innebär snabba beslut när tillfälle yppas, och vara att beredd vid udda tider, som till exempel en lördag kväll - drog ett femtontal paddlare som kunde unna sig lyxen av att ha en 50x20 meters bassäng för sig själva.
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Sunday, February 10, 2008, 9 comments
Not one single day of winter (in the meteorological sense: a full day and night with average temp below 0° C) and now: spring with blazing sun and no wind. I launched at Salviken today for a little rolling practice and a short trip down the coast and back.
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 6 comments
Steinar Solstad in Norway is building a Njord and reports on the progress on a building log:www.solstad.org. Here you find a initial declaration on choice of kayak, materials, equipment, technical solutions etc and thorough descriptions of methods, materials, tools etc as the work progresses. I look forward to follow this…
Only thing missing is a RSS-feed (but this is available in Joomla, Steinar).
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