On Sunday 01 July 2007 03:27, John wrote: > Imagine this. You are in the butcher shop and say you want 10 pounds of > prime Black Angus beef. The butcher takes a piece of beef , throws it on > the counter, wraps it and asks for your credit card. You are indignant. > "Aren't you going to weight it. How do I know it weighs ten pounds?" The > butcher replies, "I been cutting beef for forty years. I know ten pounds > when I pick it up." Are you will to accept this and pay up? Think about > this for anything that involves measurements for any force. While I agree with John with all he writes about rudders and rudder drag, or lack of it, I must say that experience makes you very good at measuring weights and loads. When I buy shrimp (small Atlantic ones) the fish monger always weigh it, but if it is one of the guys in John's age that you order from you can bet on that he puts exactly the amount you ordered in the bag before putting in on the scales, while the younger ones, with less than twenty years in the trade only get there by grabbing some extra in the hand, to be used if the scales show that he been to conservative! But this comes with experience, lots and lots of it! I would tend to believe the butcher as much as I believe his scales! Tord *************************************************************************** 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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