By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Connections.
And to travel by folding kayak, you do have to make a lot of connections…
… and maintain them in good working order!
For more, see here.
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Vladimir Brezina (RIP)
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.Johna Till Johnson
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.Recent Comments
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Love seeing the folding kayak here and last June – an amazing feat of engineering!
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The Feathercrafts, in particular, are actually a little bit too finely engineered—the tolerances in the connections between the aluminum tubes are a bit too fine, and the tubes can seize up if you don’t wash and lubricate them pretty often…
Thanks, Lynn!
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A very clever boat!!!
George
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Well, I certainly think so—although there are now simpler designs for folding boats.
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Crikey, that’s very clever. Like success in life, everything relies on good connections.
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Or your boat may sink under you… :-)
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Very clever indeed. I didn’t realise quite how small it folded down to :-)
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And the Feathercraft backpacks are good—very comfortable to carry around. Although not really feather-light… ;-)
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I am still amazed by the folding kayak. I am even more amazed at how much you utilize it-which means, it must not be too much of a bother to put together.
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It’s not a huge bother, especially once you have some practice. But with the bigger Feathercraft boats, such as the Heron, that have many parts, it’s going to take half an hour or more. That is a significant overhead for day trips. So it’s always nice to know that a trip is going to take a week and the boat can stay assembled the whole time… :-)
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Don’t miss one connection…
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That would not be a good thing in this case…
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I would NOT be good at that.
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It does take a bit of practice…
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Oh wow, I’m very impressed with the boat. I’m even more impressed by whichever one of you colour-coded the joints!
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Not us—the frame comes already color-coded from Feathercraft! They probably started doing it after too many complaints that all the parts looked the same… and to tell the truth, many of the parts that are carefully color-coded are actually identical and interchangeable :-)
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I had NO IDEA there was such a thing as a foldable kayak. That’s so cool! ~Gina
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Especially if you need to fly with your kayak to your dream kayaking destination…
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LOVE >LOVE the literal depiction here Vlad! I took tend to also be literal . Great one!
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Well, I thought nobody needed to see yet one more post of cute children or cute puppies ;-)
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I couldn’t agree more Vlad ! Glad you said it : ) ~
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Wow, that is a lot of connecting work! I admire you!
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Actually, many of the parts are already preconnected with cords, sort of like an umbrella frame—you just need to snap them together :-)
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That is really cool to see photos of, great choice for the theme too.
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Thanks!!
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