Ralph, Some years ago, when I discovered a Klepper for sale at a low price, I speed read your book in an evening before buying the boat. Of course you can rig a lift line for the rudder. One of the reasons that I never bothered to do so was that I felt that the Klepper rudder, which trails behind the boat with it's long axis parrallel to the water surface, was much less prone to slow the boat down. The high aspect ratio modern style rudders (with the long axis vertical) will exert a lot of drag when you wiggle your feet just a bit and the rudder starts to turn. I always felt like the klepper rudder just slid along behind, changes in rudder angle haqving a less dramatic effect on forward motion. Then again the rudder drag is a much smaller percentage of the total friction on a wide tandem. I was very fond of the Klepper, I only sold it because I badly needed money at the time, and I wanted a low maintenance single. Nick Lyle *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Sep 06 1999 - 10:38:12 PDT
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