Re: [Paddlewise] advanced sea kayak

Jerry wrote;

>An Advanced Sea Kayak is any boat that is difficult to handle in rough
>conditions and requires an Advanced Kayaker.   Therefore all boats that
>weathercock badly, broach quickly and uncontrollably, bury their bows
>surfing, etc., are Advanced.

Some of the Candaian readers may not be familiar witrh the term "Advanced".

>
>Also, any boat that is Twittery is necessarily advanced, no matter what
its
>beam.  In such a boat an Unadvanced paddler will not be able to lean
>properly.  There is the well known Coefficient of Twitter associated with
>each sea kayak which I have measured with my specially designed
instruments.
>By my measurements the following boats, all of beam near 22", have the
>following Coefficients of Twitter, normalized to the range 1 to 10.
Mariner
>II [2],  Solstice GTS [3], Arctic Hawk [4], Seda Glider [3], Arluk 1.9
[8],
>Arluk 2 [7].  Therefore the Arluks are Advanced while the others are
>Unadvanced.
>
>Note that Advanced is not necessarily better than Unadvanced.  Or is it?
>All other things being equal, are there any advantages to a high
Coefficient
>of Twitter?

Absolutely. Every Twit should have a high coefficient. Or is that high
colonic?

I think it should also be added that some boats have a pseudo Twitter. The
pseudo Twitter disguises a low Twitter as a high Twitter boat for those who
think high twitter is the better Twitter just because the Inuit used high
Twitter boats or, as the case may be, the Brits. Or is it the other way
around? My personal preference is a mid-Twitter boat. Moderation in all
things.

Glad to see Gerald adopting the scientific method.

Cheers,
John Winters
Redwing Designs
Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft
http://home.ican.net/~735769/

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