At 8:56 AM -0500 9/26/01, James Tibensky wrote: ><snip> >The rudder does slow the boat, but it is a necessary evil. I once >had the rudder fall off my sprint boat and I was amazed at two >things: 1) how hard it was to get where I wanted go and 2) how much >the lack of rudder made the boat more tippy. The rudder will slow the boat relative to the same boat without a rudder, but the rudder lets you design a boat that can be faster because you don't need to worry about controllability. Even after you add a rudder this "uncontrollable" hull can be faster than a controllable boat that doesn't need a rudder. So the added drag of the rudder is more than made up for by the reduced drag of the more efficient hull. Of course if you oversteer, you lose all your gains. 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 Thu Sep 27 2001 - 06:50:32 PDT
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