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What way to edge.
Peter Clinch wrote:
"That's a bit too, errr, /wrong/ for my liking. While it's true for a carved turn, if I try and break into a strong tidal flow in a 5m sea kayak using that advice then I'll get very, very wet and very, very fast" Since when have breaking in and turning been synonymous? Let's be pedantic then. If you are in a marathon or sprint boat and you are on placid water, you can make your turn a great deal easier by edging away from the direction in which you wish to turn. Better? |
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What way to edge.
Dom Murphy wrote:
Since when have breaking in and turning been synonymous? At the expense of stating the Blindingly Obvious, when one turns as part of the action of breaking in. pedantic then. If you are in a marathon or sprint boat and you are on placid water, you can make your turn a great deal easier by edging away from the direction in which you wish to turn. Better? If it's a long carved turn you want to do, but why assume it always is? If you want to do a very sharp change of direction at the expense of speed (perhaps to avoid an obstacle) a low brace/telemark turn leaned to the inside will often be a much more effective way of going about it. And while such a maneuver my be unusual in a sprint boat, it certainly isn't in a sea boat, and they have the waterline length and hull design to make an outside leaned turn completely viable and very common /where it is the right way to go about what you wish to achieve/. I use both directions of lean extensively in my sea boat, as I've been taught to. So it just doesn't make any sense to say "you are in a long boat, you always lean turns to the outside". You call that pedantry if you like, IMHO saying the above is only telling half the story and since it isn't hard telling all of it, why not tell all of it? Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/ |
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What way to edge.
Fair point. I see what you're saying re sea kayaks, and I guess the
same would apply to WWR boats. As far as K1 goes, I paddle mostly on a canal (beggars can't be choosers) and I find the quickest way to turn a K1 is a combination of bow rudder or bow draw at the start of the turn with edging, followed by a powerful sweep on the other side - mind you, I do have plenty of swims tryting it. |
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