Baidarka racing - racing baidarka
Does anyone remember Jon David from blogpost 6 2017?
Jon David went to Greenland to compete in the Greenlandic qajaq championship 2017. He won all the races, the rolling and came second in ropes competition. He set an all-times total high score that is hard to beat. Jon David has not done a lot of rolling lately, but he's getting more and more into kayak racing. We have discussed building him a traditional racing kayak for a long time. Now we're about to begin.
Of course, it must be a baidarka og Ixyaq. I've built quite a few long, narrow and very fast baidarkas over the years. The greatest challenge of this one will be to create enough space inside to allow Jon David to move his legs up and down, without sacrificing the beauty and traditional look with a huge opening :).
We just had a little meeting to start planning. Jon David brought his racing kayak, and during the month we'll see if we can combine the best of two different worlds in a new kayak for him to use.
The kayaks present in the picture are from left to right: 3 year old baidarka of my making, beginning of new baidarka frame, Jon David's racing kayak with Jon David in it, 8 year old replica of an old Akun Island Ixyaq that can be seen in St. Petersburg.
...To be continued very soon :)
