At 10:05 AM -0500 1/16/02, John Winters wrote: > >Do not confuse surfing with planing. A surfing boat makes use of the power >in the wave to reach higher speeds. A planing boat can plane without help >from waves. This may seem like a trivial matter but it is important to >people who design planing boats. But a surfing kayak is often planing, in that it's CG has been lifted and the drag is reduced. The fact that it is only capable of doing it by getting a power boost from an outside source doesn't change the way the boat moves through/over the water. Maybe not all kayaks actually start planing in surf, but those that do so more readily are faster and generally considered "better" surfing boats. This ability can be designed into the kayak. "Surfing" and "planing" are not be the same thing, but they can happen at the same time. -- 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 Wed Jan 16 2002 - 10:03:00 PST
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