[Paddlewise] Report from England

A friend is living in the UK for a year employed as an engineer. He  
sent this report back this morning. I thought the pneumatic skeg  
rudder bit would be of interest.

Jim et al

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> Spring is in full swing here and it is beautiful.  I
> spent the weekend in Holyhead (northern Wales) at a
> kayak symposium.  It is a gorgeous part of the country
> with a wide variety of water conditions on any given
> day.
>
> People from all over the world were there.  I now have
> acquaintances in Germany, Denmark, Holland, Norway,
> Sweden, New Zealand and some places that I can't
> remember right now.  I saw a bunch of new boats that I
> had never seen in the states, and I saw my first
> pneumatic skeg/rudder.  This animal is a skeg until
> fully deployed, at which time it morphs into a rudder
> controlled by small hydraulic lines hooked to a
> cockpit foot board.
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