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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:32:07 -0400, "Grip" wrote:
Never understood the "TRACKING"" thingy. If the paddler indeed knows how to "paddle" any boat tracks well. White Water boats are made to spin on a dime, but track as good as anything else if proper paddling strokes are used. Yep. Loaned my buddy my recreational Old Town Otter one day while I paddled my Perception Dancer. He was amazed at how I made it track (and I'm not that good) compared to his friend who'd taken him out one day to paddle ww kayaks on flat water. I explained that I rarely did ww (none by choice any more) and had adapted to paddling flat. He thought I had a different kayak bottom than his friend had. Nope. It is harder to get used to paddling straight in a ww kayak, but not all that bad. And it's great for current and eddy lines in flat rivers. It's not quite as fast going downstream in one, but it's a bit faster going upstream. For me. I'm slow either way. I like to dawdle along slowly anyway. The best part of a keel in flat rivers is that you can do a cross current ferry with almost no paddling going downstream. Cyli r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels. Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless. http://www.visi.com/~cyli email: lid (strip the .invalid to email) |
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