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 Begin forwarded message: Original message shortened a bit. > 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. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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