On Monday 26 July 2004 01.12, you wrote: > ----- > As we have found that it is not very easy to paddle with the > sailing rig up (snip) > I told ya :-)... This was the reason to install mast aft of my backrest > (and to switch to Greenland paddle with shorter strokes). The price for > this convenience was reduced upwind capability. We have toyed with the idea of using two masts, one for the jib and one for the main, but installing a mast behind the rear seat is a major undertaking, while installing one behind the front seat is very easy (as easy as drilling a hole in the hiking board, more or less :-)! ). But that would give lots of room for front seat paddler ... Question then becomes where should the leeboards go? Adding a tiny mizzen, at frame # 6 is doable, but then you have to cut a hole in the canvas, not so popular with the wife! > Everybody with a fore mast and crossbar, that I asked , were either using > canoe paddle or paddling a double kayak solo (not much fun too). Steeve > Isaak rigged his CLC kayak as a schooner, with hiking boards, and had to > use a canoe paddle. Schooner-style is very pretty, and if we add a new main on the forward mast we're there :-)! A Dutch company even makes deep swordlike keels for Kleppers, that fold for beaching, but that might be overdoing things a bit :-)! Tord *************************************************************************** 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 26 2004 - 03:57:00 PDT
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