Now there's the difference between kayaking in powder snow, and kayaking on eastern ice. In powder, you have at least a limited ability to turn due to snow pressure on the hull, whereas on eastern ice you have no ability to turn at all - all you can do is use wind resistance on the offset blades to spin the boat one way or the other, which is nice in that you can keep pointed downhill and see what you are going to hit. Decked vs. sit-on-top also is worth considering. For example, when we jumped the road, the sit-on-top fellow bounced off of his boat upon landing, whereas I in a decked boat was not bounced off. The flip side of the coin is that at least the sit-on-top fellow had tumbled to a stop before entering the scrub. I'm glad I'm older and wiser now, for these days I live down the street from an abandoned ski jump complex that includes a jump training pool. If I were twenty years younger, I can tell you what I would be doing . . . _____ From: Craig Jungers It's not enough that the snow is slippery and you go very fast but then they expect you to turn, too. Sheesh. *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Sep 03 2009 - 08:04:41 PDT
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