RE: [Paddlewise] Kayak Surfing

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>From: James Farrelly JFarrelly5_at_comcast.net

>I think I found the new sponson guy.






No he is not the next Sp*ns*n man.

Yoav (Wave Walker) has a way of sometimes mis-interpreting and presenting
things in a favorable light to his product and I don't think he has had much
experience with kayaks at all but he is no sp*ns*n man. I just read his
present article on speed and there is not much left there to critisize. He has
taken past criticisms and incorporated them into his article and done a lot
more research than when I was first corresponding with him several years ago.
He even looks to have a new model in the works where he seems to be
incorporating what he has learned. That's not something you could expect from
sp*ns*n man. He may deemphasis the negatives such as more wetted surfave
friction on a multi-hull but at least he now acknowledges the fact.

His use of speed data for Monohull Vs. Multihull sailboats still bothers me.
While it is true for sailboats it just doesn't apply to kayaks so is very
misleading. He should quit trying to ride that comparison. He also seems to
think that all kayaks need rudders or constant attention to make them go
straight. That probably just shows that he has only used squirrelly kayak
hulls (like a WW kayak or a poor rec kayak) himself and is leaping to wrong
conclusions from that limited experience.

I see at the end of his speed article he has acknowledged (below) my
[sometimes harsh] contributions. I suspect I'm not the only one who took him
to task for what he had been saying earlier.


"Acknowledgment:
This article in its present form would have been impossible to write without
the direct and indirect inputs from many professional and amateur kayak, canoe
and other boat designers who contributed their [sometimes harsh] critique and
plenty of useful information."
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