|It might help top speed to keep a level trim but more weight forward will |agravate an already existing weatherhelm. If you want to cut weatherhelm put |more weight in the back and less in the front. This explains the trip my wife and I took where we had to cross an open stretch of water, 90% of the trip was in a marsh. The trip was only a couple of miles to an island where we were setting up camp so we weren't to concerned with trim and such. But in crossing the open stretch of water a big gust caught my wifes boat and it turned like a weather cock into the wind. The problem was all the boat traffic that we were trying to avoid and the new wind generated course was not a good thing! 8-) |Even to keep a level (usually |the fastest) trim you must be careful to not put too much weight forward. |Imagine you're balancing a teeter-toter with your center of gravity (groin) |over the axis (while facing one end). Any weight you put in front of your |feet is a much further from the axis than what you put right behind you, so |you must put a lot more weight behind you to compensate for the length of |your legs to remain in balance. Ok. Makes sense to me but it never occured to me! 8-) I always have assumed that I had to much wieght toward the stern. I'll give this a try. Thanks for the help... Dan McCarty *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Hi guys, Re correcting for weathercocking, anybody ever put a continuous loop from the cockpit to the bow, and fasten a windcatching gadget (such as a small balloon) to it so that it could be run out as far forward as necessary to balance the stern's turning moment? e Elaine Harmon - eilidh_at_dc.seflin.org - eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
> Hi guys, > > Re correcting for weathercocking, anybody ever put a continuous loop from > the cockpit to the bow, and fasten a windcatching gadget (such as a small > balloon) to it so that it could be run out as far forward as necessary to > balance the stern's turning moment? e > > Elaine Harmon - eilidh_at_dc.seflin.org - eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu WOW!! what a thought. a re-freshing idea, for which, i hope to read, some technical comments, from experts and folks who try strange stuff. me, i just wish i could have such ideas. b bye bye bliven - larry at foxhill_at_shore.intercom.net - not allowed to use my work _at_ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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