Having been away from the list for a week and not having had time to read all of the 169 e-mails which arrived during that time, this may not contribute much to the discussion, but FWIW: The CLC Cape Charles 17 (17' X 23") I built for my wife a few years ago is the most difficult boats I've rolled. A CLC Patuxent 17.5 (17.5' X 21") I built a year later is moderately easier to roll, but still not easy. Both boats are hard-chined with lots of flare to the sides. The Cape Charles has a great deal of initial stability and excellent secondary stability. The Patuxent has relatively little of either sort of stability. A hard-chine Seguin (17' 10" X 22") I built has moderate initial and secondary stability, is much easier to roll, but still a lot more difficult than the boats in the next paragraph. I'd class all of these boats as having relatively deep keel-to-coaming dimensions. None of these is as easy to roll as a Romany (either length), a VCP Skerray, which are both round-chine, or a VCP Anas Acuta (hard chine)or Pintail (round chine). Romanys have very good stability, but are also very easy to roll. A hard-chine S&G boat I've just completed, 17' 6" X 22", with keel-to-coaming depth of 8.5", is almost as easy to roll as the Romanys are. My very non-scientific impressions: I think cross-sectional profile, shape(rounded vs hard-chine), width, and depth of the boat contribute a lot to ease or difficulty orf rolling. Logs are easy to roll. Wide flat planks, especially big ones, roll with difficulty. Low-volume boats roll a bit more easily. For those of us who enjoy doing layback rolls, shallow depth helps. Bill Hansen Ithaca NY *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jul 04 2000 - 14:02:12 PDT
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