Shawn Baker wrote: > After using this skeg last night, it was a lot less noisy when > deployed. It also seemed to have less drag, but that is what I was > expecting, so this is a pretty subjective measurement. I know with the > old skeg, when I was cruising and dropped it quickly, I felt like I hit > the brakes...quantitative tests say you gain up to 10% more drag with a > skeg deployed. The new one "feels" like less than 5. I read once that the effect of fairing is such that *for aircraft* a 1-inch round strut has as much drag as a 12-inch perfectly faired strut. Even if that is an exageration, there should still be a significant improvement from fairing anything that started with square corners. GaryJ *************************************************************************** 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 Jul 21 2003 - 08:59:38 PDT
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