Ralph wrote; (SNIP) > > What I am getting out of all this discussion is the following. Unless > you are absolutely certain that you will just about always use a > particular kayak loaded with lots of gear for camping or other uses > (e.g. beer runs, smuggling Canadian ballast rock across the 49th > parallel, etc.), it is best to buy the boat as if it were intended for > day use only. (SNIP) I think this is a reasonable approach. Performance evaluations show you can exceed the designed displacement by more than 10% without any noticeable difference in performance. After experimenting with this a bit in real life I concluded that most boats were too large for most paddling. It is, however, difficult to convince customers that they really should have smaller boat. Cheers John Winters Redwing Designs Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft http://home.ican.net/~735769/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Feb 17 1998 - 03:46:28 PST
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