Re: [Paddlewise] Instability of folding kayaks

From: Shawn W. Baker <baker_at_montana.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:20:35 -0600
But would said expert in the stable boat or said expert in the tippy
boat reach exhaustion first?

Shawn
And after typing that I realized it sounds a lot like the chicken/egg
question.

Rob Cookson wrote:
>I would suggest that if you put one expert in a tippy boat and one expert in
>a stable boat (both boats that the experts are familiar with) they would
>both stay upright until the point of exhaustion and then capsize.  I will
>say that with two novices in the same situation I have always seen the
>skinny boat capsize first.


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