On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, John Winters wrote: <<snipped lots of comments about the seeming absolute nature of my statements>> > > I know this sounds like nit picking but absolute statements about what > features do what and when can be highly misleading. What Kevin says may be > true (and I suspect are true) about the boats he has paddled but they may > not apply to all boats. > Hi John, Thanks for making this point, as you are absolutely correct. My comments about the general nature of boat design are not meant to be taken as absolute, set-in-concrete statements. Rather, my comments are observations of trends that I see in designs, which given the complex nature of designing surface watercraft, is about the best that anyone can do. Sometimes my enthusiasm gets the best of me, and I don't make this concept explicit -- this is the way that my direct manner of communicating often gets me in trouble :). However in some cases, observations of trends can be a very powerful method of understanding. One other dislclaimer that you brought up, is that I have not paddled all of the boats in the world in all conditions, or even a significant fraction, so I could very possibly have missed some notable exceptions to trends that I have seen -- a good point that hopefully everyone realizes intuitively. -- Kevin > Cheers, John Winters Redwing Designs Specialists in Human Powered > Watercraft http://home.ican.net/~735769/ > > > *************************************************************************** > 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 Tue Oct 06 1998 - 12:27:32 PDT
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