Hi Su, I'm a relatively inexperienced with whitewater kayaking, but I know that whitewater kayakers try to avoid eddylines unless doing tricks in them. Eddylines can flip or tip a less stable whitewater boat, so WW paddlers generally try to cross them as quickly as possible. On the other hand, this decreased stability area makes all sorts of tricks possible, so there is a whole other "school" of boaters that hangs out there, and in holes, waves, etc. In my 17' sea kayak, running across the eddyline will rock you pretty good, but not dump me. If you stay right next to it, you can usually move along at a pretty good clip. Unfortunately, I've had to learn about paddling rivers with eddylines at the expense of not having a big lake or ocean nearby to play on. Shawn Su Penn wrote: > This sounds about exactly right. Another list member suggested that I learn > to recognize the "eddy line" and stay on or outside it. Now I'm itching to > get back up to that river and give it another try! Around where I live, the > rivers are too slow to cause these kinds of problems. > > Thanks, > > Su -- ____©/______ ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ "A person not related to nature is of course neurotic because he is not adapted to reality" -Carl Jung *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jun 15 1999 - 12:55:16 PDT
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