RTull303_at_aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 1/14/99 7:09:52 PM Central Standard Time, > woodardr_at_tidalwave.net writes: > > > Is it possible to mount a rudder on a kayak and lock it so it cannot turn. > > i.e. use it more like a skeg that you can flip up to the rear deck? Would > it > > function well for holding a kayak straight in quartering or following seas? > > > > This is more a curious educational question than something I want to try. > > > > Woody > > > Dagger made a flip up skeg for the Vesper, I don't know if it's still > available. > It fit on the back where you would mount a rudder, and flipped up just like a > rudder, but it didn't turn. > Rob Feathercraft's Short Touring kayak, which is basically a whitewater boat that will not track at all, at one point came with a skeg that partially flipped up. It looked for all the world like a rudder but not steerable. It certainly straightened that boat out. I don't know, however, if the concept of something hanging back there like that would work for all boats. John Winters would know. He knows everything. :-) ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Jan 14 1999 - 20:17:46 PST
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