[Paddlewise] skegs up

    I am puzzled by the discussion of "lift" as it applies to skegs and 
rudders. I recall something called  Bernoulli's Principle that describes 
lift in terms of airplane wing sections but rudders and skegs are not 
shaped that way. It seems to me that if a skeg had a cross section like 
that, say, of a Cessna 150, the "lift" it created would tend to pull the 
kayak's stern to one side or the other just as it tends to pull the 
Cessna's wing upward.

John Myers

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