![]() Thank you very much to all of you who had thoughts on Terry’s watercraft. He also mentioned that it is difficult to find out who might have built it ‘as there have been a very big number of people who made them some big factories, but most of them being relatively small.’ Stephan was also kind enough to enclose a photo of a Faltboot (see above). They have been very popular in Germany since the 1930s, as that type of craft enabled people who didn’t have much money to transport their boat and go on tours.’ It’s a ‘Faltboot’. These watercraft can be taken apart and put in special bags to transport them. Stephen wrote: ‘It is the wooden infrastructure of what is called a “Faltboot”. In an e-mail, rower and rowing historian Stephan Krajewski, who attended the Rowing History Forum at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames on 21 November, was certain that it is not a rowing boat. The ring on the collar appears to be a drip ring that usually resides closer to the blade they tend to dry out in a few years and crack.’ There were a number of manufacturers in the 1920s and 1930s, so without close-up of the connections, it’s hard to discern. He wrote ‘I have a similar boat from the 1950s. ‘David’ also thinks that it is an early Klepper, maybe from the 1930s. This is because you cannot have your kayak and heat it.’ He wrote: ‘Try setting fire to it – if it does not burn, it’s a kayak. HTBS’s Tim Koch had a drastic way to determine if the watercraft was a rowing boat or a kayak. Ian writes that ‘In the intro to the folding kayak website it mentions folding kayaks can be paddled, sailed and rowed which might explain the collar on the oar ’. Ian continued to suggest a great website for information about folding kayaks, take a look here. ‘Chris’ thought it was a folding kayak, a ‘Klepper’, which Jonny Cantwell and Ian Marriott also thought, well ‘minus its skin’, as Ian wrote. ![]() HTBS readers began to leave comments, and rather soon it was established that it was not a rowing boat, but a canoe or kayak. Terry had acquired an old watercraft – well, actually a frame – and he wondered if there was anyone among the HTBS readers who could help him to identify the boat. On 17 November, HTBS posted a question from Terry P. ![]() Terry P.’s rowing boat, which proved to be a kayak.
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