Jerry wrote; >John, >I was with Fred M. on an 8 mile paddle in the ocean from La Jolla to Mission >Bay. The wind was about 15 knots from behind, as were the swells, the whole >way. Fred was in his ultra light, graphite Arluk II, I was in the Mariner >Express. He is generally quite a bit stronger than me, but I was way ahead >the whole paddle. The Express is so much easier to control in those >conditions that I was just surfing all the time. He was low bracing. I am not particularly surprised at this. The Arluks have a shorter effective waterline length than the Mariners. 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 Mon Oct 12 1998 - 09:44:10 PDT
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