On 16-Jun-2005, Peter wrote:

Your previous statement: "there is no correlation between overall length
and waterline length in kayaks"

From a perspective of useful information, that is still true. You can argue
semantics all you want, but sea kayak lengths (LOA and/or LWL) are all over
the place.

made no such distinction that it only
applied to some set of kayaks that all had about the same length, nor
was it limited to sea kayaks.

But for the fact that the discussion is about sea kayaks. I guess you
just forgot.

Naturally the correlation coefficient will be less if you restrict the
kayaks under consideration to ones with fairly similar lengths (all but
one in the range from 16' to 19'). In a more complete list with play
boats, WW boats, surfskis, etc. also included the coefficient would be
much higher.

WW boats? You're joking, right? They have even more variation in LOA
vs LWL.

I made no such restriction on lengths, I merely took the data that was
available and since we are discussing se kayaks, that's the data I used.

It still remains that overall length is not a useful indicator of
performance.

Mike