Well I stand corrected on the point about getting out of the boat to help someone. Thanks for putting me straight. The skirt I use, as has been pointed out is more for spray than dumping waves. As I don't surf or take on big waves it is not a problem. The skirt will handle more than drips, but has taken a bit of tuning to get there. A question though - A spray skirt takes most load in front of the paddler from waves, water pressure on rolls and so on. The key to resisting this load appears to be tension under the lip, resisting the forces trying to pull skirt up and over. When exiting, however the restraining forces seem to come more from the rear quadrants resisting in the same way. Is the current skirt / coaming design optimised to meet the demands of preventing water entry and allowing easy egress? Could a coaming be made with a variable lip geometry to meet both demands? Has it already been done? Any thoughts? Warwick Carter *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Sep 18 2001 - 09:28:12 PDT
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