I believe that it was Henry Kissinger who said that "University politics are so contentious because the stakes are so small." I think that this applies to a lot of debates in sea kayaking as well, the current discussion of feathered versus unfeathered paddles being a case in point. I have used both approaches, and they both work well, the differences being very small in head winds, side winds, surf, etc. They way in which either is used is more important than choice of feather angle. (I also think that the choice of shaft length is much more important than feather angle.) Please don't misunderstand me, I find this discussion very interesting, and I hope that it continues as some of the recent proposals for experimentation are intriguing. But I suspect that it will take a very carefully designed and well controlled experiment to reveal a consistent difference in performance. Dan Hagen *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Apr 30 1999 - 09:47:49 PDT
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