John Kirk Anderson wrote >My only advice is to spend time unlearning/relearning >which foot to use to turn, well away from a pod of K1's >on a training mission! The resultant capsize was amusing, >in retrospect. G'Day, Very good advice. Bought a ruddered boat the other day (A Mirage). I'd been paddling it without a rudder being leary of paddling a new boat and learning a new technique at the same time. The rudderless boat turned very nicely. But with the rudder fitted it became difficult to do a bow sweep turn just by edging. Then I read Matt Broze' pages, swapped the cables and did beautiful lean turns but at the expense of two days of near misses with rocks, people and ducks. Reckon I'm OK now but people are still staying well clear. It will be a while before I go back to gauntlets and caves in a ruddered boat though. Don't trust my reflexes yet. All the best, PeterO *************************************************************************** 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 Sep 27 2006 - 04:55:31 PDT
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