Re: [Paddlewise] Rudder as Skeg

From: John Winters <735769_at_ican.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 09:24:08 -0500
Ralph wrote;

>
>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.  :-)

Does not.

Cheers,
John Winters
Redwing Designs
Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft
http://home.ican.net/~735769/

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