Very insightful post by Craig Olson, but he neglected to mention an obvious biomechanical advantage of his system. To be specific, Craig wrote: > 2) Having a cold one on both port and starboard helps ensure that > I will look in both directions frequently, thereby ensuring that I > get maximum scenic pleasure from the outing. If you actually try this (first thing I did after reading Craig's post) you will find that looking at each beer with each stroke promotes proper torso rotation! Using my knot meter, as verified by my differentially corrected GPS (with "heads up" display), I determined that the improved stroke mechanics resulted in a 7.3 percent improvement in efficiency--defined as per Taylor--about equivalent to the improvement realized through the use of a wing paddle. I suspect a further improvement could be obtained if one were to supplement the beers with a bottle of Aquavit dangling from a pole mounted on the bow, rather than an apple. (An apple?!? Who ever heard of an apple with a beer chaser?) I should note that I used a "Euro" paddle. One can only guess at the remarkable improvement to be had if this technique were to be combined with a Greenland stick. Skål! Dan Hagen *************************************************************************** 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 21 2001 - 22:30:36 PDT
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