From: "D. Scanlan" <dscanlan_at_shaw.ca> > Sounds like good advice to me, but I am fairly new to the sport and I am not > familiar with the term "deployment". Did you mean until your skeg was > sufficiently extended to hold your bow off of the wind by a certain amount? Basically. I didn't want to cancel out the weathercocking too much, so I just set the skeg down a bit. That made it easier to hold a fixed angle to the wind with a paddle stroke on one side. With more skeg in the water, there was too much correction and I had to paddle on both sides with irregular strokes (either more frequently on one side than the other or with a sweep on one side and a straight stroke on the other). That would have resulted in faster speed, but my arms were tired so I preferred one side only. Mike *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Dec 02 2002 - 06:30:46 PST
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