Re: [Paddlewise] baidarka bow styles

From: Nick Schade <nick_at_guillemot-kayaks.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:48:25 -0400
Although sweeping your hand through the water probably isn't exactly  
a controlled test, most baidarkas are not designed such that the  
lower finger is underwater, so you would want to do your test with  
both the upper and the lower fingers sticking up out of the water.

On Aug 13, 2007, at 11:21 PM, Paul Montgomery wrote:
> Here is something I find interesting. With a flat hand and fingers
> together, open the index and middle fingers to make a V. Put your
> hand in the water with and with out the V. To me water seems to slip
> through the V much better than with out.

Nick Schade

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