tmitchell_at_ hekizan.com >I'll take that bet. How much you got to lose? 'Cause you are wrong, wrong, wrong on this one...< Maybe you are right, maybe not. My experience with surfing kayaks is the couple knot kick that virtually EVERYONE who has ever paddled a sea kayak down wind and waves experiences, along with some interesting and sometimes scary shots at surfing onto beaches in small waves ( 1-2 ft swells, lumping up to 2-3 ft as they hit the beach and break), and some very scary times with large fishboat wakes. At no time was my boat planing on these waves. The increase in speed was substantial, up to double in some cases. Paddling is necessary to stay on the wave, or to catch the one behind as the first one rolls through. I would suggest that folks like yourself and Kevin Whilden, who can truly speak to the issue of planing their kayaks while surfng, are in the minority. Most of us can only dream of having the skills, guts and opportunity to do so. Rob. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Rob, See, I got you again 'cause you're wrong on this one too. Anyone who knows me will readily attest to the incontrovertible _fact_ that I am unathletic, unskilled and basically a coward... Opportunity is the big one. I can be on Puget Sound geared up and paddling my touring boat in 45min and on an excellent whitewater run in 35min in the opposite direction. Unfortunately, neither of these have sunk their hooks into me like surfing so I have to drive a _minimum_ of 100 miles one way to the closest break. I shouldn't complain, after all I could be stuck in Kansas or somewhere equally hellish ;-> Still, may be it's for the best. With my obsessive personality, if I lived on the NorCal coast or some such place, I'd probably be athletic, skilled, full of guts and... ...unemployed, broke, divorced, and so on and on. Best, Thomas At 08:24 AM 1/21/2002 -0800, Rob MacDonald wrote: >tmitchell_at_ hekizan.com > >I would suggest that folks like yourself and Kevin Whilden, who can truly >speak to the issue of planing their kayaks while surfng, are in the >minority. Most of us can only dream of having the skills, guts and >opportunity to do so. > >Rob. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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