Joq wrote; (SNIP) >I'm not even <thinking> of challenging John on matters-hydraulic, but when it >comes to matters-visual, I recently watched a paddler in a Mariner reach down >into the cockpit to slide his seat forward and aft and noted some significant >hull attitude change --- and hull shape, too. ("Significant" appeared to be >more than an inch or two.) What am I missing here? That seat can't slide >more than a few inches either side of "neutral" --- wherever that is --- but >the hull definitely moved in concert, and moved enough to be noticable >visually and, for the paddler, presented a fairly significant set of >performance parameter changes. The difference would be that the paddler in the Mariner moved the entire seat. I think the original question concerned just moving the seat back which would only affect ones posture. Moving the seat moves the entire body not just the upper torso that more or less poivots about the body's CG. 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Oct 08 1998 - 05:09:34 PDT
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