At 12:24 AM 7/23/02 -0700, Matt Broze wrote: >I couldn't find anything to disagree with in what John Winters wrote about >paddles. While I'm a very "feel" oriented guy and usually trust my >kinesthetic senses a lot, I especially liked John's point about not going >with your feelings when judging a kayaks speed. You can feel how hard you >are working but you can't really feel accurately how fast you are going. >Even though many think they can, they are often fooled by using ease of >acceleration (or other factors) that aren't applicable to judge the speed. I had a good example of that last night. I've been paddling my new Outer Island for a couple of weeks now and one of the things I felt about it was that it didn't feel as fast as other boats I've paddled. I went out with a couple of friends to get in some self/assisted rescue practice as a storm front was blowing in. One of them was paddling his Arctic Hawk, the other in a Kevlar Seaward Endeavor. The guy in a Hawk is a very strong paddler and typically I have to work to keep up with him. Last night I felt like I wasn't working hard at all and had no trouble sticking with him. I'm not sure how hard he was paddling but it was into a pretty stiff wind so I doubt that he was taking it easy. Apparently my new boat is faster than I felt it was. *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Jul 23 2002 - 05:10:59 PDT
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