[Paddlewise] Paddling in a Straight Line

Lightning Paddles' web site
(http://www.paddles.com/library/straight.html) has an interesting
treatise by Clark Bowlen entitled "Paddling a Sea Kayak in a Straight
Line --Straight Talk".  Food for thought.  I'd be interested in reaction
from folks who have studied efficient paddling.  Excerpt follows my
signature.

-- 
Dave Kruger
Astoria, OR
-- Begin
Most paddlers think that going straight is primarily a function of boat
design. Tracking is probably the most sought after characteristic in sea
kayaks. Stores are loaded with long, straight keel lines, tippy
cross-sections, and lots of rudders. Most paddlers would argue that my
rudderless, rockered, rubber kayak is no match for a Kevlar rocket when
it comes to tracking, and they would prove it to themselves by paddling
both boats one after the other.  And sure enough, they would be right --
for them.
-- End

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