News wrote: > Thinking about it I may well have got the units wrong, the GPS readout was > in kph and read above 5 kph most of the time. But speed over land is not > always the same as speed over the water of course. Anyway - we hadn't > planned to do a three day trip in almost one day - it just happened that > way! For the second half of our paddling day it was very calm and glassy > smooth water and the boats were travelling well, 6-7 kph at times. > >>12 hours at 5 knots? That's pretty good. What kind of kayaks were you >>paddling? You're not reading that unit as "knots per hour" are you? Knots is nautical miles per hour, so 7 knots per hour for 12 hours is 84 knots. The unit kph is kilometers per hour, at least on my GPS. Knots is kt. 7 kph is 3.8 knots, a reasonable touring pace. -- Steve Cramer Athens, GA *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Aug 09 2003 - 06:07:38 PDT
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