John Winters wrote: > >...<snip>... How much > leeway you make will depend upon the windage and the lateral resistance of > the boat. ...<snip>... > > ... the added leeway will cause more > resistance since the boat is traveling kind of crab like rather than > straight through the water. ...<snip>... > Narrow deep draft hulls have greater > lateral resistance and that helps too. ... All of this certainly makes sense (at least to my feeble mind). Doesn't this also imply that hulls with a single hard chine may have an advantage in such circumstances, since they tend to be more resistant to "side-slipping", thereby reducing leeway? Has anyone tested the resistance of different hull designs to slide-slipping? It would seem as though this may an important factor in "real-world" performance. As someone who paddles frequently in the wind, I do not spend much time traveling in the direction my boat is pointed. And yet the standard resistance formulas measure (or seek to measure) the resistance of a boat that is traveling straight ahead. It would be useful to know more about these other factors. Dan Hagen *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Oct 02 1999 - 11:25:21 PDT
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