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Sea Kayak vs. Touring Kayak
Will someone please tell me the difference between a sea kayak and a
touring kayak. Thanks. jm |
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Sea Kayak vs. Touring Kayak
We really do use the terms interchangably.
Perhaps this will help. I was the Sea Kayaking Program Director for a paddle sports company. The boss suggested we start using the term touring kayaks instead of sea kayaks because he felt it scared away potential customers who were not interested in going on the "sea." Brian |
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Sea Kayak vs. Touring Kayak
. In Greenland (my personal "Mecca" of
kayaking), each "qajaq" is built from the ground up for a particular purpose, and proportioned to the body measurements of the individual paddler. Any boat not built to those particulars is not even a "qajaq", but "like a qajaq" ("qajariaq"). Melissa So I've often wondered, What happened when people died or "retired" from hunting? Surely resources like a qajaq were to precious to discard? What happened to them? Geoff |
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Sea Kayak vs. Touring Kayak
"Geoff Jennings" wrote in message t... . In Greenland (my personal "Mecca" of kayaking), each "qajaq" is built from the ground up for a particular purpose, and proportioned to the body measurements of the individual paddler. Any boat not built to those particulars is not even a "qajaq", but "like a qajaq" ("qajariaq"). Melissa So I've often wondered, What happened when people died or "retired" from hunting? Surely resources like a qajaq were to precious to discard? What happened to them? Geoff If they were indeed tailored specifically for an individual, then how precious could they be once that individual was gone? If orginally built as a qajaq for a particular individual, it could be passed on to someone else as a qajariaq, right? |
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Dave Van wrote: "Geoff Jennings" wrote in message t... . In Greenland (my personal "Mecca" of kayaking), each "qajaq" is built from the ground up for a particular purpose, and proportioned to the body measurements of the individual paddler. Any boat not built to those particulars is not even a "qajaq", but "like a qajaq" ("qajariaq"). Melissa So I've often wondered, What happened when people died or "retired" from hunting? Surely resources like a qajaq were to precious to discard? What happened to them? Geoff If they were indeed tailored specifically for an individual, then how precious could they be once that individual was gone? If orginally built as a qajaq for a particular individual, it could be passed on to someone else as a qajariaq, right? Presumably, they were rebuilt to fit another person or passed on to someone of similar proportions. Unless the original owner was significantly outside the norm in size, it should be easy to do so. One thing that is common in Greenland is for gunwale boards or frames of departed relatives to be displayed as reminders of them and their accomplishments. -- Regards Brian |
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