I wrote; >I was reading an article by Kent Ford in a past issue of Paddler magazine >(May/June 1999). The title of the piece is "Make Your Boat Glide". He >talks about how rocking fore and aft and side to side cause considerable >drag on the hull. Kent claims that, "A barely visible wobble or bob, say >one-half inch, is like dragging a coffee cup-sized anchor on each side of >the boat." I'm having a hard time believing this. Could someone enlighten >me please? > John Winters replied: <<I have trouble believing it too. I can find nothing in my stuff that suggests such a thing and changing the heel such a small amount doesn't change the form characteristics enough to account for it (sometimes the form gets improved by heel). Did Ford say where he got the information?>> I looked at the article again and he doesn't say attribute the info to anyone else. John, could you explain how heeling could improve speed? It seems to me like it would be an inefficient action. Wouldn't it, to some small degree, make the boat 'zig-zag' just a little bit? Cheers, Dave Dave Williams dave_at_paddleasia.com http://paddleasia.com Phuket, Thailand *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Sep 23 1999 - 05:29:33 PDT
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