Hi all... I've now had a private message from Paul Caffyn explaining the source of his first rudder: he and a colleague made it before the one from Tasmania arrived. The Tasmanians had always insisted that it was theirs he used... Changing the subject slightly, I've just seen George Dyson's article 'The Aleutian Kayak' in the April issue of Scientific American. At one point Dyson speculates whether the Aleuts used their ballast stones to tune the pitching, hogging and sagging of their boats to suit the conditions, but admits 'Experiments to test this hypothesis have not been done.' (p 69) Did they, I wonder, use the stones to trim the baidarkas to run straight downwind: obviously a mechanically simpler solution than rudders or fins. To change the subject yet again: anyone care to comment on the effectiveness of the new Dagger rudder? Cheers, Peter pcarter_at_acslink.net.au allegedly <www.acslink.net.au/~pcarter> temporarily <users.senet.com.au/~pcarter> 34deg 55' 30" S 138deg 32' 4" E *************************************************************************** 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 Wed May 10 2000 - 14:53:18 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:30:24 PDT