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From: Brian Jones <mvhs-bj_at_mvhs.sad3.k12.me.us> subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Holding On Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 08:05:33 -0500 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:32:46 PDT

At 07:23 AM 2/2/98 -0500, John wrote:

> No doubt sponsons could be improved. Nothing is perfect. One could also
>take another approach. Why not make sponsons redundant? Why not design
>boats with enough stability to allow wet re-entry without having to use
>sponsons? 

John:

Wouldn't providing enough initial stability to enable  reentering  require
increasing the beam so much as to reduce final stability to the point that
capsize in the first place could conceivably be more likely? 
>
Brian
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>John Winters
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