Most books and all the relay good kit type product/designers providers like www.guillemot-kayaks.com Nick Schade, his brother Eric  www.shearwater-boats.com  and www.kudzucraft.com Jeff Horton that the fraim and skin kayak was not so much a design as a combination of necessity, available materials, how those  materials can / could be constructed into a sea worthy craft based on the physical measurments of the paddler and the paddlers needs.


So I ran though all the books and started thinking, what would an Eskimo do if he had an mechinical maufacturing engenering education, access to a CAD workstation, CNC cutting  equipment and composit, resin, fibergals, carbon fiber and high pwerformance polyester fabric.


So this Ukrainian Jewish Eskimo will describe the basis of the how to take a picture and make a compost Greenland SOF 


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Wood, Sinew and skin material, even if the skin is nylon or polyester, are still like using a type writer when you have a new laptop. Before the purists run for the pitchforks wood and sinew is where it all started. Eskimo figured out that you do not need a rigid boat to have a reliable craft. Much to the contradiction of the proponents of production plastic craft and strip built or stitch and glue a skin on frame boat  douse not resist the energy it encounters it works with it.


My interest was to use materials I had access to and were complements to the materiel that were historical being relapsed.

First entry more to follow.