At 07:45 AM 7/25/98 -0700, James Lofton wrote: >Now that the greenland paddle heat has cooled (I hope) some, maybe I can >get some of the scientific minds to answer a small question. Not so quick. I did a little scientific experiment this weekend while paddling down the St. Marys river. It was low do to not much rain from the rain Gods no matter who we have sacrificed to try to appeased them. Any how back to my observations. My paddle stroke with my greenland paddle is about 2 ft. While paddling many miles of 8-10 inch water over white sand I watched my stroke. Yes the boat did move forward but my paddle slide back 4-6 inches each stroke . Now my mind isn't all that scientific after spending 12 years in the 5th grade I finally did graduate. About a forth of my stroke was slippage, I watch the big blade paddlers but could not make any sense of it their paddles keep hitting the sand. My stroke was normal even though I was in shallow water. Now what do all of you learned minds make of this? anything to it or did I just pend a lot of time watching my paddle instead of the logs and trees that I ran into along the way in this experiment? Dana *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Jul 26 1998 - 17:03:14 PDT
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