> The quicker deployment of the Boulter of Earth product makes it ideal for those beating into a headwind that need to stop for a short rest, water or food break to prevent loosing that hard earned ground (er, water?). Thanx for the good info, Matt. Hey Joq, did you ever get hold of Boulter? I assume you were looking for their drouge. BTW, I questioned the terms drouge and sea anchor a while back and came across the following definitions at http://www.biggideas.com/sea-anchor/html/drogues.html "Sea anchors are used to align a vessel with the seaway bow-to, that is facing directly into the wind and the sea. Since all boats are designed to take the seas in the bow a sea anchor should be a sailor's FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE. In other situations a suitable drogue may be towed off the stern to keep the stern aligned with the seaway as she is running or quartering the seas downwind." *************************************************************************** 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 Wed May 19 1999 - 04:57:05 PDT
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