I just want to add that it feels better into the wind. Down here in the deep south it's much cooler into the wind. When paddling down wind it feels like there is little or no wind. Jim >>> Michael R Noyes <mnoyes_at_ix.netcom.com> 05/29/98 09:46am >>> D.R. Ferron wrote: > Along these same lines, I'm new to kayaking and I've been going out recently on > a lake. For some reason, I seem to paddle straighter and easier going INTO the > wind and against the current, heading into the waves. When I turn around and > head to shore the way I came but with the wind at my back, I feel awkward and > have a hard time keeping on a straight course. Is this difference because it's > a lake rather than a river? > > Thanks, Donna > > > > -- > > *************************************************************************** It might be the waves and not the wind that is causing your problem. When hit from behind by a wave boats try to broach, or turn sideways to the wave. All boats tend to broach at least a little, some more than others. The design of the stern is the deciding factor here. Or, if your trim is a little bow heavy, the wind would act as an aid in tracking upwind, but work against you downwind. Try putting a gallon container full of water in the stern and see if it helps. Mike -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri May 29 1998 - 08:31:44 PDT
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