Re: [Paddlewise] Help a Rudderite sin.

On Oct 6, 18:57, dldecker_at_se.mediaone.net wrote:
} Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Help a Rudderite sin.
> At 04:28 PM 10/6/99 +0000, Mark Zen wrote:
> >At 13:05 10/6/99 -0700, Richard G. Mitchell, Jr. wrote:
> >>
> >>Well I should have read the sermons before piping up in church but amid
> >>all this fervor I did have a question about rudders, that well, may have
> >>been drowned out by the burbling of cavitation and the singing of the
> >>choir.  I asked before and now do humbly do so again, about, well...
> >>
> >> Problem: how to sail a Feathercraft K1 with a small Balogh Batwing sail.
> >
> >i don't think i have ever seen a sailboat without a rudder, i think this
> >must fall into the "appropriate use of a tool" catagory, you haven't sinned,
> >you've been blessed with a gift, to see a use for an otherwise... ;-p
>
> In the  book "Alone in the Carribbean" (1917) the sailing canoe Yakaboo did
> not have a rudder the centerboard was on sheaves and could be slid forward
> or backwards and was steered with the sails only

Also sailboards don't have rudders.

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