"plane my blade under the water....and it worked. So...has anyone else played with this?" A little. I tried in one session not long ago to follow the storm roll ideas from Derek Hutchinson's Complete Sea Kayaking. On my good side, I could hold the paddle at 20 - 30 degrees out from the bow, pull it down, then planing out and around underwater, rising, until far enough around to get leverage to roll up. I can't think of any real reason why the blade has to plane on the surface in a roll. The surface is just the highest level on which the blade can sweep. If conditions on the surface are turbulent, as in storm, wind, why not have the blade plane lower, out of all that? I don't know the answer to these questions, maybe more accomplished rollers can comment. Regards, Peter T. *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Apr 03 2000 - 23:41:25 PDT
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