On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:42 AM, James Farrelly <JFarrelly5_at_comcast.net>wrote: > > 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/ ***************************************************************************
Children should be trolled, not heard ... or something like that. Are they good with ginger? Always a rudder man, whether enscoped or Dramaticined. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Rudder man's concept modified by one who has been sitting at a computer all day, rewriting and checking DoD acronym lists: apologies offered in advance. There once was a man from Qatar Who built a deployable ruddar. With child left and child right He steered -- just wasn't right! -- By trolling the one or the othar. Joq *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
On a day devoted to mother, We used her kid as a rudder, Yelling "Gee" to go left, and "Haw" to go right, It was always one or the other. Copyright 2009 by someone with more nerve than I've got. Anonymous National Hysterical Poets Society Moses Lake, WA On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Martin, Jack <martin.jack_at_solute.us> wrote: > Rudder man's concept modified by one who has been sitting at a computer > all day, rewriting and checking DoD acronym lists: apologies offered in > advance. > > There once was a man from Qatar > Who built a deployable ruddar. > With child left and child right > He steered -- just wasn't right! -- > By trolling the one or the othar. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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/ ***************************************************************************
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