I suspect a number of factors. Certanly the steady power output made a huge difference. Also the difference between leg and arm power. I have not looked closely at the Mirage propulsion system but it may have a design more suitable for low speed high thrust than high speed. Sort of like the difference between a tug boat and a destroyer. The one has a large propellor operating at low speed and the other a smaller propellor operating at high speed. They may have had a much different result had they had the battle between a sprint canoeist and the Mirage. Sprint canoeists use huge paddles (realatively speaking) and lots of upper body strength. At the top level canoeists will pull away form kayaks in the first 50 to 100 meters and then fall behind. Wouldn't you love to see a power curve for the two. Yes, Matt, you probably have it right - they sucker punched Barton. Cheers John Winters *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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/ ***************************************************************************
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