>Bruce Winterbon wrote: >> >> It's easy to keep a solo canoe going in a straight line: use a double-bladed >> paddle. > >Dan Hagen answers: > >While you're at it, why not also add a rudder? Most flatwater cruising >and marathon canoes are paddled from a sitting position with the feet >set against a foot brace. It shouldn't be all that difficult to attach >rotating rudder pedals to the foot brace....... Hank Hays pipes up from the peanut gallery: Verlen Kruger did that several years ago to 2 or 3 of his models. Only solos I think, though he could have a rudder on a tandem model by now. I haven't seen his literature for 3 or 4 years. >This would allow you to avoid using all of those pesky strokes. :-) Not quite. I paddled one of Verlen's solos for a bit with the rudder down and, yup it would be nice in the wind, but slooooowwwwwwwwwww. I pulled the rudder up and, much better performance! Those strokes are automatic to me, I don't even have to think about them. There's a very, very, very good article on paddling a kayak in a straight line in the newest Atlantic Coastal Kayaker Magazine. That mag will be familiar to most East Coast paddlers but most Westies might not have heard about it. ACK has a Web-site at: http://www.qed.com/ack/ but you won't see the article on it for a while, if ever. I'm going to try and get permission to post it on my own. I'll let the list know if I succeed. Or maybe some unable to get it otherwise could talk me into mailing them a xerox of the article. >The thing I like the most about canoeing is the elegance of the >single-bladed paddle. Don't let him fool you people, he's just trying to redeem himself for those rudder-on-a-canoe suggestions <grin>! Hank Hays Lightning Paddles, Inc. *************************************************************************** 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 Jul 17 1998 - 16:33:40 PDT
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