When visiting the shed of my club I recently did found two of the memberīs new sea kayaks equipped with b o t h a skeg & a rudder. So - to just warm you up - seems that they had got the solution to this very dear subject of ourīs: why not have them both! :-) To me this seems to make everything much more complicated: besides sharing your concentration between the sea and your paddle moves, you are more bound to pay attention to your equipment. I do personally could find it quite dangerous in some situations, even if the other member of this duo is very experienced: more than 4000 kilometres last season, and more than 15000 kmīs during last three. Quite a lot of it solo. He had problems with rescuing the other last summer (turning around in breaking waves, donīt know the wind, must have been more than 16 metres/second), so that might be the reason for this all, but, but... I have this feeling of making things a little bit of too complicated. Too much to work with, if you get my meaning. Comments? Anyone familiar with the combination, as for an example in rough weather? Surf? Ari Saarto Principal Lecturer, dept. of Photography Lahti Polytechnic - Institute of Design Faculty of Visual Communication Kannaksenkatu 22, P.O. 92 15141 Lahti Finland GSM +358 - 50 - 526 5892 fax. +358 - 3 - 828 2815 e-mail: asaarto_at_lpt.fi web: lpt.fi/mi/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Feb 02 1998 - 13:49:40 PST
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