Mark Zen wrote: > At 20:09 9/29/99 -0400, Michael Daly wrote: > [...] > i am fairly willing to bet the boat has started a turn before you lean, > and you were performing a jam turn... No, I make sure I'm going straight- I check a spot on the horizon to ensure that I have no turning moments active. As well, if what you say is true, then I shouldn't be able to do a slalom just by leaning, but I can do that with some boats as well. The Swift North Sea (J. Winters design) does this nicely. Lean one way, then the other and the boat will turn one way, then the other - all without paddle strokes. In fact, when I took my first kayak lesson, the instructor told me to work on leaning the kayak and keeping the kayak _straight_ as an exercise in boat control and balance in heeling. What's true of a canoe isn't necessarily true of sea kayaks. I've solo paddled canoes often enough to know that they don't automatically turn on edge. Note as well, in WW kayaks, you lean the opposite way that you do in sea kayaks to turn. Mike *************************************************************************** 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 30 1999 - 19:12:06 PDT
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