I was in my rather narrow boat with a couple of people in those wider, stabler boats(a Romany and a Baja) having a conversation (stationary) on the Delaware river a couple of weeks ago, A rather large boat wake swept us up. my boat went up and down very vertically while theirs swaggered from side to side, I'm sure that they subconsciously compensated with weight shifts. I think dealing with this in rather turbulent waters for any length of time could be fatiguing, even more so in a boat with a firm initial stability. It seems that my boat has no primary stability and it requires very little effort to put and maintain a edge for a length of time. I am not fighting that primary stability. -- : : Gabriel L Romeu : http://studiofurniture.com furniture from the workshop : http://members.xoom.com/gabrielR life as a tourist, daily journal : http://studiofurniture.com/paint paintings, photographs, etchings, objects *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded 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 Sep 12 2000 - 23:26:12 PDT
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