RE/ > It seems rougher water is faster or gives the illusion of >being faster. Thoughts anyone?? I'd put my money on the "illusion" theory. I paddle my surf ski with near-religious devotion to the speedometer's instantaneous and average speed readouts and my experience has been that glassy water is the fastest (except, of course, almost any water with a tailwind and/or following swell...) Dunno why...but it could very well be that it's simply the same reason it's glassy: no wind..... I also find that my perception of speed varies widely form indicated speed - especially in the ocean. When I'm so far from a stationary reference point sometimes it seems like I'm crawling along even though the speedo is reading fairly high....this can be aggravated by a following chop....for want of any other reference point, I fixate on the individual chops which, of course, I'm not moving very fast relative to... ----------------------- Pete Cresswell *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Jun 18 2000 - 17:32:57 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:30:26 PDT