On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 07:51:00AM -0400, John Winters wrote: > The video is proof of nothing. First the movement of the paddle in the > water is not revealed since there is insufficient close up to show if there > are eddies around the paddle. What difference would that make? The stipulation was that the paddle did not move, NOT that it didn't create eddies. > Also, if I recall the video correctly, (I > think I saw it at a canoe show some time back) there is no way of knowing > what the flow is from the shots. Hence the flow could be around the paddle > and not revealed by the relative motion of the boat to background objects. I'm not sure what you mean by this; do you mean the flow of the current? (I'm pretty sure this bit of video was shot on a lake.) ---Rsk *************************************************************************** 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 24 1998 - 09:00:14 PDT
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