"Shen44" wrote

hmmm let me try and draw a pitcher fer ya.
Your looking at this here paddle wheel just beneath the surface of the
water
(totally submerged), from the side, which is rotating clockwise through
360
deg.
It is being driven by a shaft coming out the stern of a boat,
longitudinally,
and the whole paddlewheel is located just aft of the transom. (kinda like
a RH
paddlewheel).
Now, are you trying to tell me that the amount of "push" that these
paddles
develope against the boat, is the same between 090 and 180 deg. rotation
as it
is between 270 and 360 deg ?

I would guess yes. But I don't know. And I was picturing a side wheeler.

Sv