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Comment by Rick Newman on April 12, 2013 at 11:57am

Who needs sleep!

Rick

Comment by Mark Stuberr on April 11, 2013 at 5:07pm

That's exactly the idea! I do think that fishermen and women will be interested in the design for no other reason than it will allow access. with a three foot bottom she is wider than most stand up fishing kayaks. Add a fishing brace and a flyline guard on the forward bulkhead and deck and off you go. I wish i could have it done before the festival but i'm only human. 

Comment by Rick Newman on April 11, 2013 at 1:52pm

So a whitewater play boat! I have some ideas of my own. I used to paddle a Dagger Encore whitewater solo canoe and enjoyed the ability to surf waves and such. Lots of time on the Salmon Rivers of Idaho in rafts and kayaks.

Comment by Mark Stuberr on April 11, 2013 at 1:29pm

Rick,

Got a camping spot reserved, so a group of us will be headed down probably Thursday night. I dont know if we will be bringing my driftboat Florence or one of the schools display boats, (my vote is for Florence, then we can get on the water!

As for the IRH, she is a decked solo double-chined Briggs style river dory. The deck is there to serve three purposes, first to help keep water out of camping equipment second to add flotation and third to make the boat easier to right after an upset. The theory behind the double-chine is this, like in whitewater canoes and kayaks a double chine adds a lot of secondary stability a happy byproduct of this is it places the oar locks in a vertical or nearly vertical position, giving great range of motion for sitting and standing rowing.

Its a Briggs style so there is a small flat spot in the hull just forward of the rowing seat, i have some ideas as to why i did this but there a little long winded. Finally being only ten feet long and four feet at the oarlocks it will only need seven or seven and a half foot oars, making it great for extremely narrow challenging rivers.

I'm happy to answer any other questions about the boat, i'll try to bring the drawings and the table of offsets to the festival.

Cheers!

Comment by Rick Newman on April 11, 2013 at 6:41am

Very interesting design. Will this boat be decked? What is the theory behind the second chine? Did you find the camping info?

Rick Newman