At 16:13 10/6/99 -0700, Bob Myers wrote: >> At 04:28 PM 10/6/99 +0000, Mark Zen wrote: [snip] >> >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. nope, you are very correct, see what happens when you are not the master, but the student ;-) i meant "direction correction devices" similar to rudder/skeg/fin/leeboards, 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 - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Oct 06 1999 - 20:02:37 PDT
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