Though I no longer seem to do much winter paddling here in Maine (opting instead to build new additions to the fleet) I used to do a fair ammount of solo winter paddling 15 or so years back. The two problems that come to mind presently are substantial icing on the deck and paddle shafts (near the blades) which would actually make the boat top-heavy. Crossings sometimes get pretty iffy because of this. Also, I had two reasonably heavy FG boats wear through the bow at the water line after cutting through extensive skim ice on the ocean. All considered, it's a dangerous time of year to be paddling out there..... mark *************************************************************************** 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 Jan 04 1999 - 03:35:56 PST
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:30:02 PDT