Sorry Elliot, do yourself a favour and check out the subject "sponsons"
on in the rec.boats.paddle archive on groups.google.com... That might
give you a lot of the pro's and contra's of this kind of contraption as
well as the reason why that subject is hardly ever brought up on this
newsgroup any more.
I think that those sponsons have very little use in the real world,
although they might be useful in a few situations, IMO over all they
take away the skill and let people rely on something like that instead.
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Wilko van den Bergh wilkoa t)dse(d o tnl
Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe
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