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Show off the kayak you built
Tony Schmitz
3/20/2024 8:37 AM

Hey members — another issue of The Masik is underway. Again in this issue we'd like to feature a few member-built qajaqs — at best with a photo or two, plus a brief explanation of what went right, what went wrong and what you learned along the way.


The next issue will come out in very early June, with an editorial deadline of May 10. (Bonus points for beating the deadline.)


Thanks for your consideration, and for your support of Qajaq USA. Regards — Tony Schmitz

Terrance Gallagher
3/20/2024 1:40 PM
(Resending, with smaller photo files)

Hi Tony,

My contribution: 

This is the iqyax (baidarka) I built last fall at the Delmarva Paddler’s Retreat, in the build workshop with Anders Thygesen and Jannie Heegard. This is the second time I participated in the build workshop, and the second iqyax I built. Prior to the first workshop (2019), I had never paddled a skin-on-frame vessel, and I find the experience exhilarating. An SOF sits in the water in a very different way than a more rigid craft, almost like a living thing. I loved the first one, but right from the start I knew that if I did it again I could do a better job. I proposed five or six small changes to Anders, and he approved them all: a little narrower, smaller coaming, lashing instead of pegging, bifurcated bow, Corey’s Goop instead of polyurethane. Using Corey’s Goop for the first time was challenging, but Anders and John Huber saved my a**.


(I kept this short, but I can expound at length if you say so...)


Thanks,

Terry Gallagher


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Tony Schmitz
3/20/2024 3:40 PM
Hi Terry — I must have seen you at the Delmarva workshop, slaving away, since I stuck my head in there more than a time or two. This could be the vagaries of gmail, but I'm not seeing your resent files. Who knows what that's about. Sorry to trouble you, but could you could try sending them again? Thanks. Tony

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