Re: [Paddlewise] Surf Technique Question

If you are heading straight down a breaking wave, you'll have to avoid
pitch-poling (your nose digging down into the trough and your tail pointing
to the sky, somersaulting  your boat forward).  Rather than going for a
full broach, try feathering your stern rudder into a stern low brace.  This
will slow your boat's descent down the face of the wave and give you a
chance to settle closer to the trough without first having been pitchpoled.

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] Surf Technique Question
> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 12:12 AM
> 
> You are surfing a sea kayak straight down a wave with a bit of stern
rudder
> here and there to maintain direction.  The wave begins to break.  Is it
> possible to continue straight ahead with stern rudder?  I always have to
> switch to a high brace and broach.
> 
> Jerry
> 
>
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