>I actually tried a set of Sea Wings many years ago. I wound up returning them - I could not get them to ride above the water until leaned on, so they did create drag, which would have off-set the benenfit of any additional sail I could have carried because of them. Even if they had worked, I would not today buy any product that would directly or indirectly put a penny in Tim's pocket. The irony is Sea Wings would be of some use to some people in some situations. I've heard about all this, but didn't follow closely. And again, there are Wings by Feathercraft. You are right, the height of installation of sponsons is very important, and they should be pointing few degrees up (as in Watertribe photos). The guy in Watertribe has a lot of freeboard - must be one of those canoes looking like kayaks, but much larger. If the kayak has low freeboard, you can't mount them directly on boards - that would've been too low. Those on the photo by Scotty are still too low. From my experimenting with 9" sponsons, they should be suspended directly from the crossbar, with the upper side of the sponson pressed against the crossbar (which is not how Scotty is using them on the photo) and even then on the after-deck of a regular sea kayak you might have to raise the crossbar by a few inches over the deck, because the deck here is low. For sailing, I doubt that there can be any reliable way to mount them onto the paddle shaft so that they could be fast and easily attached any time, without drilling some holes in the shaft, so it would better be some old spare paddle. *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Dec 26 2006 - 21:43:00 PST
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