On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:07:16 Joy E. Hecht wrote: >I have an Arctic Hawk and had a lot of problems with weathercocking. I >found that the best thing to offset it was to lean back, not forwards. >My usual paddling style has a lot of forward lean. But in a beam wind if >I lean back, while it makes for less efficient paddling, the boat tracks >much better - so overall it's an advantage. But perhaps it's different >in other boats. I talked to her about the weathercocking last night again. This last time out we deliberately loaded the stern of her boat while leaving the bow light. She said that this made a positive difference (I think we may have inadvertently been putting too many water bottles into her bow since it has that convenient hatch that is easy to open on the water by another kayaker). This would be similar to leaning back, basically shifting weight to the back of the boat. I probably need to find some Canadian Ballast Rocks (TM) for her stern. Since a lot of the hills in north east Kansas were formed by glaciers during the last ice age some of the rocks around here are probably original CBR's. Would there be a problem using the original CBR's or have there been significant improvements in the last 10,000+ years? :) Mel --- There are three types of people, those who can count and those who can't. -----== Sent via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Easy access to 50,000+ discussion forums *************************************************************************** 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 20 1998 - 07:22:52 PDT
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