From: "Michael Daly" <michaeldaly_at_rogers.com> Just a comment on my own note: > From: "Shawn Baker" <shawnkayak_at_yahoo.com> > > > >According to Matt, Mariner kayaks turn by being edged alone. No > > >initiation required. Something about the asymmetric shape of the hull. > > > > > Tilt right and the hull turns left and visa versa. > > > > They do, they really do! It's the craziest (but one of the neatest) > > things I've ever felt. > > No discredit to the great folks at Mariner, but I'm a tad amazed that this > seems to be a unique feature. Many kayaks do this, [...] I hope no one takes my comments on specific kayaks in this post as gospel. While I try to test the no-sweep-carved-turn under similar conditions (e.g. negligible wind and waves) there are many things that I don't control or properly account for. For example, I don't guarantee that I test at the same forward speed - this no doubt influences behavior. As well, kayaks that have a well-defined sweet spot in the secondary stability or at least feel comfy on edge will be tested with more heel than those that are twitchy - especially in the spring when I don't want to dump (brrrr!) and when my skills are a tad rusty. So the Pintail, which I love and which feels natural on me (and I wish I owned!), is likely to exhibit the behavior more easily _for_me_ than the Caribou, since I never felt "right" in the latter (nonetheless, IMHO it is a fairly "neutral" kayak for the things I tried out). Ditto my Solstice, which, after five years, I'm quite comfortable with and can heel over hard quite readily. Someone else in a Solstive GTH, a very stable and hard-to-lean kayak, might have trouble getting it to turn easily on edge without a sweep. This is definitely a case of YMMV. Mike *************************************************************************** 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 Dec 04 2001 - 18:27:38 PST
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