On Dec 5, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Turner Wilson wrote: > > And you can use the blade with a modified stroke that you would > understand as wing stroke with the blade flipped over to the other > edge, with the stroke away from the kayak. I have never seen > Greenlanders use this stroke, but I have experimented with it and > it works. It is a lot of work however. You better have a good engine. I know that some people do use a wind stroke with a GP. I've tried it and I agree that it requires a better engine. Unfortunately, it is the nature of efficiency that it feels harder. It takes a better engine because more of your effort goes towards moving the boat forward. Most people could probably paddle all day if they just dip their finger in the water, but most of the effort would go into stirring the water, not much would go to moving the boat. A less efficient paddle generates less force because your paddle is following the path of least resistance and moving water around. It moves a little bit of water fairly fast. The water is easy to move but doesn't contribute as much as it could to moving forward. If you grab ahold of more water and don't moving it as fast it will feel harder. Efficiency feels harder because you are putting more of the effort goes into making the boat go faster, and the faster you make the boat go, the more drag you need to overcome. You start to get farther into the inefficiency of the boat. Going faster takes a better engine. Nick 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 Wed Dec 05 2007 - 14:27:47 PST
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:27 PDT