John Winters said: At the top level canoeists will pull away from kayaks in the first 50 to 100 meters and then fall behind. I used to race sprint kayaks and never saw this. Never saw it in slalom or marathon boats, either. Are you sure about this???? In any human-powered boat of any kind, 50 meters is a huge distance. I don't believe a single canoe could beat a single kayak over any distance, not even five meters. I could imagine that if a kayakist and a canoeist each took only one giant stroke, the canoe would proabably win because of the bigger blade area and the leverage and weight on the blade advantage gained from the high kneel, but make it two strokes and the kayak should win. >From life-long kayakist Jim Tibensky *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Aug 29 2004 - 14:08:20 PDT
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