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 Guillemot Kayaks 824 Thompson St Glastonbury, CT 06033 USA Ph/Fx: (860) 659-8847 http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/ *************************************************************************** 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 Aug 14 2007 - 06:48:43 PDT
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