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What do I lose by having a shorter boat?
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Keenan & Julie
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in article , Dirk Barends at
wrote on 6/18/05 4:14 AM:
Keenan or Julie wrote:
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If the damned boat is the same design only longer, it goes faster.
Depending on the power of the 'engine', it could as well go
slower...
Uh. Good gried, I think you need to assume the same paddle power in this
discussion.
But, if necessary, I shall add that a more powerful paddler in the shorter
boat could indeed go faster than a less powerful paddler in the longer boat.
Sigh.
Beyond that this whole discussion sounds like geeks on steroids to
me.
Perhaps, but if you choose a longer boat with the illusion that it
goes faster while in reality it will only make you work harder or go
slower, that persons will need the steroids or may be quite
disappointed.
Yes, I understand there are long lines of disappointed paddlers who bought
longer kayaks and ended up being miserable about how slow they are moving.
Keenan
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