Re: [Paddlewise] modification to reduce weather cocking

In theory such an approach is fine, but any hull modifications
are a pretty permanent experiment.  The time required might be
better spent on either installing a rudder, skeg, or some sort of
temporary/removeable skeg.  My boat also weathercocks and I've
also been dreaming about possible fixes, but have dealt with it
so far by running more of a zig-zag course when needed.

Play Hard,
Erik Sprenne

> I was out in a wind that blew from my starboard aft quarter a
few days ago,
> and had to paddle several miles at that attitude.  It required
constant
> correction to overcome a persistant weather cocking tendency,
and I grew weary
> of the extra labor.  I'm thinking of reducing the sharpness of
the keel line
> in the front quarter of the boat where it is quite pronounced,
in order to
> create a more neutral balance between the bow and stern.  This
would be a
> similar effect to lowering a skeg in the stern, except that it
is actually
> raising a bow skeg, so to speak.  Before I undertake this
correction, which
> involves structural work to the boat, I'd like to hear any
arguments against
> the idea, especially regarding the possibility of some other
adverse steering
> problem I might create.  Let's presume for the sake of the
discussion, that
> I'm going to do sound structural work, and that I'm not going
to remove so
> much material as to overcorrect.
> Ken Rasmussen


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