Thanks for these comments, Mel. Hadn't met anyone who had paddled a Pursuit. I've only paddled it about 5 or 6 times and, yes, we are in warm water although it's pretty chilly now. The first time I used it we were paddling into some pretty strong wind and I reach the put-out about 15 minutes ahead of an experienced female paddler who was paddling her K-light for the first time and another (not so experienced) who was paddling her new Scupper Pro (about 15', plastic SOT) (but she doesn't have good paddling skills - won't listen). I accomplished this by tacking. I thought (having taken some basic sailing classes years ago) that this would work and it did. Is this a known paddling "fact?" i.e. Do all you experts tack when you're going into the wind? For those who don't know, tacking is sailing in a zig-zag pattern. Sandy Kramer *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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