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Travail de la coque
Le travail de la coque consiste essentiellement en la decoupe des cares. Comme je l'ai dit, je veux des cares plus marquees que sur mon precedent bateau. Pour cela je pense ne faire qu'une seule face au niveau des pointes. Ce sera donc la care de cote...
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Methode de travail
Le fil chaud pour decouper: Je travaille avec un fil chaud pour couper le polystyrene. J'ai recupere des gros cartons d'emballage chez IKEA sur lesquels j'ai decoupe les gabarits. C'est une etape tres importante car c'est la que se decident les profils...
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Quel genre de forme?
Je suis un amateur de vagues lisses et mes formes jusqu'a maintenant ont ete des bateaux avec une (tres) bonne glisse, grace a une ligne tendue et une pointe arriere ne depassant pas les 15 cm de hauteur. La contrepartie est que dans des vagues creuses...
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La vague de Kuchl
Kuchl est une vague au sud de Salzburg sur la Salzach. C'est une (ou plutot des) vague(s) naturelle(s). En fonction du niveau c'est seulement la premiere qui fonctione mais ca peut aller jusqu'a 3 ou 4 vagues surfables les unes derriere les autres. C'est...
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Longboard 2.1: tuning for carve & slide
It's time for updates about longboarding (meanwhile rather shortboarding, because of the turn :-)). Nothing revolutionary has happened since the last article which I wrote after discovering the carver surfskates. This year (2019), I've just been doing...
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Building a short surf kayak (2016)
After the experience of 2012 when I first built a surf kayak, there were many errors to be corrected on the shape. Overall, the cockpit and the seat were too much to the front (note: I moved the seat backwards later on), and I also wanted to reduce the...
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Building a surf & freestyle kayak (2019)
My quest for the optimal "surf & freestyle" kayak blend is continuing. This is an evolution from the previous shape from 2016, and from the first one in 2012. The picture below shows the new profile (brown cardboard template) compared to the previous...
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Light Carbon Freeboard
How light can a freeboard get? Freeboards are notably quite heavy, owing to the fact that they have 6 wheels and bindings. The FB 5 and 5x are respectively roughly 5.5 and 6 kg. This is quite a weight to carry around and under your feet, so I set myself...
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Building a carbon freeboard: Details from behind the scene (2024-2026)
I already wrote about the current "final" version of my carbon freeboard there. Up to that point (early 2026), the board had already been for almost 2 years in the making. So here, I want to give more info about the building techniques which I have used,...
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25 years of custom kayak building
I started kayaking in 1995 (I was then 13 yrs old) in Toulouse, southern France. The region was a breeding ground for some famous kayak shapers and manufacturers, in particular ZigZag (competition composite kayaks) and GuiGui Prod (maybe the most successful...
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Mojo Rojo (aka. DaReds) freeboard wheels for 2026
I just received my new Mojo Rojo wheels, which are similar in shape to the DaBlues, hence the nickname "DaReds". I bought them not because I was out of wheels and absolutely needed new ones, but to see if they'd work better than DaBlues on my carbon flangers....
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Two carbon freeboards ready for the season
I continued working on my carbon freeboards over the last few months. I had already introduced them in a previous post and also explained my building techniques. Now, exactly two years after the first prototypes, I have reached a major milestone, with...
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Natural Farming in India
(Last Update: 20-03-2010) During a travel in India in winter 2007-2008, I found the indian edition of "The one straw revolution: an introduction to natural farming" of Masanobu Fukuoka in a library of Delhi. The preface of this indian edition was written...
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Tests en vague (a Kuchl)
Mardi 10 Avril 2007 (premier test) J'etais a Kuchl Vendredi, Samedi et Lundi. J'ai pu tester le bateau dans plusieurs vagues differentes: - vague de taille "moyenne", lisse et (tres) rapide: C'est la vague qui se forme immediatement derriere la vague...
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Premier test sur le plat
Aujourd'hui, j'ai pris le metro avec mon bateau jusqu'au bras mort du Danube ("le vieux Danube" avant qu'il ne soit canalise...). Donc, seance sur le plat! Le bateau est bien equilibre en cartweel, meme si il me semble que la pointe arriere passe un peu...
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Pani, nahi - Pepsi piyo!
Found on http://community.livejournal.com/stolngeneration/4581.html (From "Sanjay Sangvai", Sun, November 14, 2004 9:15 pm). I find that it's fitting nice to the name of this blog: Pani, nahi - Pepsi Piyo (Don’t’ drink water- have Pepsi). Say India’s...
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Introduction
Voila mon premier Blog... le but est de mettre en ligne les etapes de la construction de ma nouvelle forme kayak rodeo. Tout d'abord pourquoi "pani pio"? Ca sera probablement le nom de la forme. C'est de l'hindi (la langue la plus parlee en Inde) et ca...
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Toilettes sèches... pas encore chez moi malheureusement...
Ca fait bien longtemps que je m'interesse aux toilettes seches, surtout depuis la lecture des travaux de Joseph Orszagh que l'on peut lire maintenant sur son site Eautarcie. Je ne vais pas m'etendre sur les economies d'eau qui sont evidentes, mais il...
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Freeboarding is like finless (kayak) surfing
I love freeboarding, but probably not exactly for the same reason as most freeboarders do. The sport was invented in the late 90's, it is a 6-wheel skateboard that reproduces the movement of a snowboard on the road, to "snowboard the streets" during the...
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Empty tomatoes
I mentioned in a previous article that slugs are a nasty pest in our garden... Here the proof: The garden is far away from where we live, and because we had no time to take care of them the tomatoes grew too close to the soil where the slugs are.
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Videos sur l'agriculture sans labour
Voila quelques videos sur l'agriculture sans labour. Sans commentaire, elles parlent d'elles memes:
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The rolling duck
Mona made a running / rolling duck for her nephew's birthday (1 year old on the 5th of January 2010):
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Stern stall
A session of flatwater training on a lake near Vienna. Good for the balance... Although sometimes eskimo roll without paddle doesn't work...
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Children's Kayak (2018)
This is a 160 x 50 cm kayak I built for the children. The weird thing is that I can't try it...
