Imagine you are a little kid pretending that you are a plane, buzzing about your backyard. Which way do you bank your wings? Inside of the turn. Same goes for bracing with ww turns into and out of eddies. Richard Culpeper www.geocities.com/~culpeper ---------- > From: Gerald Foodman <klagjf_at_worldnet.att.net> > To: paddlewise <paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net> > Subject: [Paddlewise] Crossing Eddyline Question > Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 12:19 AM > > I learned to moon the current when crossing an eddyline. Good enough. But > I get confused about which side to brace on. If you don't moon enough the > current wants to flip you to the upstream side. You are tempted to brace > hard upstream to prevent going over that way. But you are supposed to brace > on the downstream side. It takes too long to think this through when I need > to. > > Any suggestions. > > Jerry > > *************************************************************************** > PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List > Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net > Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net > Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ > *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** 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 Jan 13 1999 - 05:56:36 PST
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