Re: [Paddlewise] Folding kayak assembly time.

From: Elaine Harmon <eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 10:49:19 -0400 (EDT)
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Elaine Harmon wrote:

> I can't imagine needing a rudder on a K-Light. Pat and I had ours out
> yesterday morning, and marvelled at how any boat could both track so well,
> and turn so easily. I still don't understand it. e

I just realized, the good tracking is at cruising speed in open water,
when the bow wave must help do that hull compression - the wee concavities
between the stringer tubes (?) - whereas the turning was done at low speed
in a mangrove channel, where the hull might take on a more chineless
shape. Is that it? e


Elaine Harmon - eilidh_at_dc.seflin.org - eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu

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