Personally, I'd still love to have a kayak that performed well without a rudder, but perhaps needed a skeg for tighter control as an option (but one that was still good enough you could get by without the skeg). That raises an interesting point. I think most good performance sea kayaks do well without a skeg, then the manufacturer adds one for easier paddling in contrary conditions (pure speculation on my part). As I understand it, a proper skeg boat is designed around the skeg. That is, the boat is actually designed to weathercock. That being the case, I prefer a boat that is designed to handle well without either a skeg or a rudder, and then I can add a rudder to it only if I felt I really wanted one to make life a little easier. I don't HAVE to use the rudder on the boat, but the skeg boat is designed to require the use of a skeg. Scott So.Cal. *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Jun 23 2004 - 05:00:22 PDT
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