At 5:44 PM -0700 5/11/01, Frank Lucian wrote: >Nick Schade wrote: ><snip> >>Feathering paddles is not a crock. It makes a big difference and it >>makes the difference where it is most useful... when you are going >>upwind. <snip> > >I've always been curious how much of a difference a 60 or 45 degree >feather will make while going upwind (as compared to 90). Can this be >estimated? I suppose you could make a first approximation by looking at the Cosine of the feather angle. Cos(90) = 0, Cos(75) = .26, Cos(60) = 0.25, Cos(45) = 0.7. However, it is a little more complicated than that because the blade does not maintain a constant angle throughout the stroke. Nick -- Nick Schade Guillemot Kayaks 824 Thompson St Glastonbury, CT 06033 (860) 659-8847 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon May 14 2001 - 06:17:07 PDT
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