Richard Culpeper wrote: 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. A couple of things - When kayaking in powder snow, do you edge into the turn or away from the turn??? My own experience in kayak sledding has only been in midwestern snow which is neither ice nor powder. I found that I had no control whatever, no matter what my edges were doing. I did learn that glass boats slide a ton better than tupperware boats and that, in the old, long whitewater boats of the day (this was in the '70s) it was maximum fun if you would lie down in the boat with your head and whole body below decks and then have someone give the boat a little spin as they pushed you down the slope. I think if I did that now I would be sick for a week. Jim Tibensky *************************************************************************** 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 Sep 04 2009 - 06:05:38 PDT
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