Re: [Paddlewise] Help a Rudderite sin.

I once sailed a small sailboat for a few minutes with its designer (VCP
founder Frank Goodman at the 1984 Maine Sea Kayak symposium). If I remember
correctly you changed the trim to control it. It worked.
Matt Broze
http://www.marinerkayaks.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Zen <canoeist_at_netbox.com>
To: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net <paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net>
Date: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Help a Rudderite sin.


>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
>
>mark
>grin, grin, this is fun ;-) thanks list mom!!
>
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