The skegs in question did not simply have a hole drilled in the center, they were smooth, with the lines of the skeg all curved towards the center of that hole. One of the people using this kind of skeg at the Delmarva weekend explained that the water flows towards but not through the hole when moving forwards, that it creates a suction towards that space, but the water flows past because of counter pressure from the water on the opposite side doing the same thing. however, when the boat is moving to one side, the water does not have that counterpressure, and it is able to flow through.... don't know who it was, but it made sense at the time, I'm sure I'm not explaining it well/correctly.... if only i could draw a picture of it...... Tori *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Oct 12 2000 - 09:19:54 PDT
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