I rented a Cobra Tourer, today, for a Paddle in the Monterey Harbor, Aquarium area. I liked it. It did seem to have weather helm. Whenever the wind blew from the side more than 45 degrees from my direction of travel, the boat wanted to turn into the wind. I asked a couple of kayakers if it looked like the boat had more freeboard in the rear than the front, with negative replies. Matt and/or John, is it likely that some weight inside the rear hatch might correct this? I'm assuming that weather helm is probably due to too much windage to the rear of the boat and/or not enough lateral resistance by the underwater parts of the rear of the boat. In both cases it would seem that sinking the rear a little might help? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jun 20 2000 - 16:25:35 PDT
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