Thanks to the folks who wrote with suggestions for my friend Bill, with the titanium hips. His problem is he has to have his knees below his hips so he doesn't exceed an 80 deg. angle at the hip joint. That seems to make a SOT type the only way to go. I thought of the Heritage Nomad or Expedition as possibilities, as well as John Winters Tribalance design or one of the EZ riders with outrigger. It has to be something damn stable to allow sitting him with his butt higher than his knees. This raises the center of gravity kind of high. Trouble with most boats including my Cobra is that you sit with your knees elevated rather than depressed and he can't get his hips to bend up to a 90 deg. angle from straight, let alone get his knees higher than the hips. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Flory, San Jose, CA. daflory_at_pacbell.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speak softly and study Aikido, then you won't need a big stick. ©2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Tue May 30 2000 - 08:48:18 PDT
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