Jerry Foodman wrote: I did several 1 nautical mile timed calm water speed trials with each of various boats. Here is the average of my best two speeds for each boat: Mariner Coaster: 4.55 knots Mariner Express: 4.70 knots Necky Tesla: 4.82 knots Seda Glider: 4.99 knots Seda Impulse: 5.05 knots CD Solstice GTS: 5.16 knots As you can see, I have only mediocre strength. I know that the faster boats can be driven by a racer considerably faster than 5 knots over longer than my 1 nm. I would be interested if any stronger paddler has made similar timed comparisons. I found that my sense of which boat was fastest had no relation to the actual timed data. I will never use a demo day trial to conclude that a boat is fast. I believe that at 4 knots and below there is not a dime's worth of difference in the efficiency of these boats, but I don't know how to test this. Jerry These were flat water time trials, which do give you an idea of relative boat speed. However, I've found that in wind and waves, the whole thing changes. I've been on the water in moderately rough conditions many times when several Coasters were well out in front of the longer boats. John *************************************************************************** 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 Oct 11 1998 - 16:06:21 PDT
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