Peter writes: in favour of turning into a > sharp broach and savage high brace and coming onto the sand sideways, if I > understand rightly. What do you reckon? Kayaks do three thing. 1. Sit still (boring) 2. Turn (YAW) 3. Go straight (balanced YAW) This is where YAW-HOO comes from, but that's a whole nother story. Deciding which choice to make, in the above scheme, is what I call boat control. Deciding which choice to make when landing a big boat in dumping surf can be a challenge. You might want the boat to come straight into the beach, but not straight as to pitch pole. So probably won't want the long waterline and all the tracking aspects of my boat speeding me to shore so maybe if I go sideways. Soon as I get moving toward shore I might hold the boat on a straight course till I get close to the dump zone. Then I might back off the wave enough to NOT surf and begin a gradual turn and prepare for a side surf. I generally keep paddling, especially on the onshore side, to encourage my boat to get sideways. If I time it right, my boat is turning sideways as the wave takes it's dump, I reach up into it with a brace, tilt my boat a bit and Viola, sidesurf. Remember a FULL side surf is going straight in a really short (22 inch or so), really wide (17 feet or so) boat! Keep the onshore knee in control of the edge of the boat and don't lean too much on the offshore paddle and HOLD ON (HOO). Be very careful as the water gets shallow , as it's easy to *trip* over the keel line and do a side head plant in the sand. hope this helps. steve *************************************************************************** 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 Thu May 09 2002 - 06:59:30 PDT
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