On 18 May 2005 at 17:01, Nick Schade wrote: > tertiary stability is the tendency of an > inverted kayak to stay inverted and is measured in the minutes a > kayaker must hold his breath before he is able deploy a crotch > dirigible and effect a self rescue. Naahh - that's quaternary stability. Tertiary stability refers to the ease with which a person can do a balance brace in a particular kayak. So primary is 12 o'clock, secondary is between 12 and 3, tertiary is 3 o'clock and quaternary is 6 o'clock. We're running out of time to define any others. Mike *************************************************************************** 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 May 18 2005 - 14:29:29 PDT
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