Uh oh, I've gotta watch what I say now. My wife started subscribing to the list today. She had already forwarded this message to me (at my work email) asking how to do what John suggests before I had logged on and read it myself. On Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:36:54 John Winters wrote: > >Trimming down at the stern shifts the Longitudinal center of area aft. A >better method than adding weight would be to attach a small fixed skeg aft. >I have found that something a foot long and tapering to about 2" deep works >wonders. Such a skeg doesn't add a lot of resistance and can serve to >protect the bottom from abrasion. If you mount the skeg just aft of >amidships (about 10% of the waterline length) it can reduce weathercocking >without hindering maneuverability much. OK, what type of material do I use and how do I affix it? > >I do not recommend using Genuine Canadian Ballast Rocks (TM) for trimming >the boat. They should only be used as directed in our very complete users >manual. > There's a users manual for CBR's?!? Dang, that's what I've been doing wrong. It's the ol' RTFM again. :) 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 Wed Oct 21 1998 - 10:19:34 PDT
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