I have skimmed many of the posts on this subject ... much of it has been conjecture. In the absence of decent data under controlled conditions, I suspect we are tilting at windmills. Fun, but not very meaningful. Fluids are tough to do decent measurements on, and the physics is tough. Fluid mechanics is a "young" science. Someone dinged scientific folks for asking for data gathered under controlled conditions -- well, data gathered where the (many) variables are minimized at least allows the differences in the paddles to show up against whatever noise there is in the system. Asking for such measurements is good science. Knocking people for gathering them is crummy polemics. I hope Winters can get his tank back up, and can gather some data. Then I could take that data into the field with me and see if it jives with my experience. Back to the lurk. BTW, paddled on the river for the first time since the mold got me last September. Not fixed, yet, but got some handle on this stuff. Weak as hell, but stronger. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Jul 26 2002 - 20:08:37 PDT
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