At 20:09 10/5/99 -0400, Michael Daly wrote: [snip] > >I have a kayak with a rudder, but haven't used it in years - where's >that put me? > >Mike none of my canoes has a rudder, can't see why i would want one on a kayak? ;-p the last one i bought from my dad, had a rudder. used it once, out on a big lake, and the wind came up, i forgot about the rudder, and did a hard sweep to bring the boat around. ended up in the emergency room with pulled muscles... what did i learn? yes i can paddle all day without ever having to worry about steering, until the swells come up, then the rudder goes in and out of the water... you never know [since you're looking forward] when the boat will stop or start to turn as the rudder catches and releases. i would rather have the predictability of never having it grab. i come from a whitewater back ground, and believe boat control is an essential part of the paddling "skillset" ... my "sea kayak" that is designed for a rudder, but has none :-) has _fixed_ foot braces, that the rudder control pivots around, so you don't have that squishiness in movable foot pegs. i don't see how you could brace solidly in the boat, and still use your feet to steer... YMMV, IMHO, etc mark #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com-------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/paddler [index of Paddling websites I manage] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. --Pablo Picasso *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Oct 05 1999 - 21:19:06 PDT
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