To me the way to solve the problem of trimming or fine tuning the boat with load is straightforward in kayaks with skeg. You just place your load almost evenly with a tendency of more weight forward, and the kayak will weathercock. Lowering the skeg can compensate for that, and you can adjust the skeg deployment to reach a neutral condition for the wind and waves present. If unloaded, skeg kayaks are designed to weathercock and small adjustment of the skeg will give the right trimming. I think the skeg is a good contribution to kayaking. Best Regards, Rafael. Mexico *************************************************************************** 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 Nov 06 2007 - 07:14:00 PST
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