> I'm curious how you determined that the kayak was starting to plane. > What indicator did you use? > Feel, and you also can see the bow start to ride up on it's own wake. Being also a sometimes whitewater paddler, I'm very acquainted with the feel of a boat planing. I have also deliberately made her plane off in tidal rapids, so I could surf the waves like I would in my ww boat. The whole thing was totally subjective, but I did notice at about the same time that the boat was much harder to propel. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Wayne Smith wsmith16_at_snet.net Check out my sea kayaking & homebrewing page: http://pages.cthome.net/wsmith16/home.html *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Jan 16 2002 - 03:24:29 PST
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