>Gabriel wrote: The skegs were basically frames, the center was drilled out, which allegedly > allowed them to work as skegs and gave little resistance to turning. > > Is there any reference or thoughts about this? Other than saving a small amount of weight, it seems to me all this would do is increase the drag of the skeg, reduce its effectiveness as a skeg, and only slightly reduce the resistance to turning. You can not have an effective skeg that does not reduce the kayaks ability to turn, they are mutually exclusive of each other (unless it is a rudder of course). Either you increase the kayak's resistance to yaw, or it does not serve as skeg. Either there are other considerations for this type of skeg, which may not be obvious to us (like religious or even superstitious reasons for example) or it was done in ignorance. Peter *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Oct 11 2000 - 17:32:33 PDT
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