Kayakers, I consider sea kayak surfing my specialty. When turning or keeping straight on a wave, I almost always edge on the outside of the turn and rudder on the inside. Occasionally, if I'm at the top of the wave, with the bow and stern out of the water, I'll edge the kayak way over on the inside and rudder on the inside to get straightened out. But overwhelmingly, I edge on the outside of the turn. I'm very happy with my amount of control of a sea kayak in surf, and I've been complimented on it many times. Lately, I've seen a lot of videos of sea kayaks surfing the Skooks wave. Just about every kayaker is edging the sea kayak on the inside of the turn. It seems to me they'd do a lot better to edge on the outside, but nonetheless, they are doing pretty good. I wonder if most of these guys surfing Skooks are whitewater guys, and therefore, aren't familiar with outside edging a sea kayak, or maybe they know something I don't. Admittedly, I surf Southern California waves generated by Pacific swell, but I apply my same techniques to tide rips I've surfed in San Francisco Bay. How do you edge turn your sea kayak in surf or tide rips? Duane www.rollordrown.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 Fri Aug 21 2009 - 19:47:46 PDT
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