hey piet

. . . anyways so i would think that the end of july is good and that plan for the kayak sounds great im excited to see you guys and i just did the my course for . . . . anyways talk to you soon let me know specific dates when you can.

schuyler

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That is lots of stuff you said there but . . . . my thoughts:

When you come up here during July or August, if you get an extra week here then we can take that week and build you a kayak just like mine. We can then bring it down to Nova Scotia on my car with a roof rack. Just a thought . . .

Pieter

Pictures of the first PBK 18 Being Built.

Building my second kayak the PBK 18. The back of the photo is inscribed "Late summer 1974."

Pictured here is the bottom with five keels, gotta watch those rocks. I was anticipating running lots of rapids in the Canadian rivers.

Sanding the edge of the coaming was one of the last finishing touches.

I had started cutting the frames in Ottawa while on a summer work term. It was all done in a small backyard of a rooming house where I lived with a couple of draft dodgers up from the States.
At the end of the work term I finished the kayak in Vaudreuil Quebec, back home with my parents. This is where these photos are taken. We then lived on Le Petite Cote, or Route 17 right next to the Hilltop Motel.

The first little PBK 10

This is the first kayak that I built. It is an 11 foot PBK 10, had an 28 in. beam and 3 in. draft. Being so short it tended to yaw a lot when paddling. In the short but sometimes high waves of the Lake of Two Mountains it behaved wonderfully. It bobbed like a cork and I remember that it was a fabulous experience paddling among big waves.