Wasn't this covered somewhat in the book "101 Uses for a Dead Cat"? Bill -----Original Message----- From:Craig Jungers > > Lets get back to Paddlewise basics and start an argument about rudder vs skeg. I'll start. > > It depends. > It just occurs to me that I may have worded the new subject poorly. Oh, well. I can testify that when Hailey was 3 and sat in the rear hatch (we took the hatch cover completely off) we discovered that she liked to trail one or both hands in the water as I paddled along. Since she was behind me, her activities made a good experiment. I did notice a few changes in the handling of the Nimbus Telkwa; to wit: 1) Tracking was excellent about 66% of the time; 2) Turns toward a single hand in the water were easy while turns away from a single hand in the water were not so easy; 3) Stopping was much easier when both hands were in the water; 4) Going was much harder when both hands were in the water; 5) Performance peaked at 30 minutes after which time the skeg began making shrieking noises immediately after yelling, "are we there yet?" Not recommended. I believe that the rudder would be a vast improvement over a child as skeg. We have not yet tested a child as a rudder. Frankly, I'm a little afraid to bring it up to her mother. Craig Jungers Moses Lake Scientific (sort of) Test Center www.nwkayaking.net *************************************************************************** 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 Jul 07 2009 - 12:52:44 PDT
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