From: "Wayne Smith" <wsmith16_at_snet.net> > > 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. This may be incorrect use of the term planing. Uncle Derek may be calling the same thing planing without following a formal definition. While many whitewater kayaks can plane, they probably surf most of the time. They should be called surfing hulls, rather than planing hulls. With enough horsepower, a kayak can fly - that doesn't make kayaks flying boats :-) When (trying to) surf my Solstice GTHV on wind waves, I often note that it "takes off" with a significant shift aftwards of the point where the bow meets the surface of the water. If you paddle a big kayak like that, you know it isn't planing, but the behavior sounds similar to what you describe. I think much of this discussion centers around inconsistent use of the word "plane". 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 Wed Jan 16 2002 - 11:54:33 PST
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