Re: [Paddlewise] Crossing Eddyline Question

From: Richard Culpeper <culpeper_at_geocities.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:42:59 -0500
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

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> 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
> 
>
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