Re: [Paddlewise] The Great Skeg Vs. Rudder Debate.

Alex Ferguson wrote:

> >Bad points.
>
>
> >3) Soft feeling foot braces, not locked in place
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> ONLY with badly designed systems.
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> >4) When in use, especially at high rudder angles, your feet are in
> >different positions - affecting bracing and paddle strokes.
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> ONLY with bad design.
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>
>
> Alex

At this point I think I should mention the kayak I was looking at to cause the
question.  It is the Kajak Sport Avalon Viviane.  It comes with a skeg, but the
foot braces are the pivoting type already set up for a rudder.  In fact, the
through-hull tubes for the rudder cables and the rudder pivot hole are pre
installed in every kayak.  So if  I went with the rudder option I would be
adding it to a skegged boat, just a little redundant.
    But the "rudder pedals" on it are great!  In fact the owner of the shop
where I was looking at the Viviane said that she is going to put them on all of
her personal boats.

Mike

--
    Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are
visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great
blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a
mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your
passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space.
Mark H Hunt


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