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Foldable Kayaks
a.k.a folbot, faltboot, skin on frame kayak, ...
Forums
- rec.boats.paddle Usenet group
- FatlBoot.de Forum
- FoltBotForum.com
- Yahoo Bagboater packboat group
- hr.rec.nautika croatian Usenet group
HOWTO
- Paddles size, shape, angles ..
Web Kayaking - Links
Dictionary - Terminology
Brands
- Feathercraft
- Folbot (great folding example) | Greenland II
- Kolibri
- Klepper |thread in a military forum
- Nautiraid
- Pouch
- Wayland | Zlatko got Harpoon a clone of Klepper Aerius Expedition
Shop
Pictures
- Feathercraft galleries are great!!!
- Wayland Harpoon
Stories and Texts
DIY
- sea kayak diy
- looking neat and workable, not wood though
- profi looking DIY kayak
- Very very cheap kayak
- Nice DIY that just looks like it would work, yet it is unfinished
- Ludens Nauticus solved skin neatly
alternative rib fittings / locks / latches / clips
- great info on DIY kayaks. Some fittings ideas laid out.
- bungee straps
- cotter pins
- more building ideas at pouchboats
- steel U profile at the bottom
- this guy did a lot
- a lot of greenland kayaks here too
- greenland kayak building sources
paddle
air sponsons
- made with PET plastic
- http://www.faltboot.org/wiki/index.php/Zur_Sicherheit_Luftschläuche
- http://www.zoelzer.de/content.php?Produkte%2FKanusport%2FAuftriebsbeh%C3%A4lter%2FSchl%C3%A4uche&seite=shop/produkte.php&details=59&hauptrubrik=132
- http://www.waylandkayaks.co.uk/folding_kayak_spares.html
Books and magazines
- NSW Seakayaker (online)
- Paul Theroux's The Happy Isles of Oceania
- Ralph Diaz' Complete Folding Kayaker
People
- Hannes Lindemann did the ocean in 50ties
Transport
Tech
Dictionary | Glossary
- keel
- hull
- rudder
- bow
- stern
- gunwhale
- chine
- kayak glossary
- paddling glossary
