One thought I had was to attach the two sponsons to each other with a full length bit of fabric instead of straps at each end. The fabric could be thinner than the straps creating less drag and it could be shaped to help maintain a "good" shape. The tricky part would be making it so it would be adjustable for different size kayaks, but that might not be necessary. Nick ><snip> >towing, like sponsons do. Tim's sponsons are especially bad this way because >the straps under the kayak are at each end and if they are tightened down >enough to stabilize the kayak much (and not have the kayak also sliding >around inside the harness) they also are curved down at the ends--like a hot >dog--and plow up a lot of water when moving forward or backwards and (in >contrast to Tim's claims) greatly increase the drag on the kayak being towed >or paddled. -- 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 Sat Dec 29 2001 - 12:01:44 PST
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:30:47 PDT