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steen bondo wrote:

Alan Adams wrote:

advantage that the swimmer uses his/her legs instead of arms to do
most of the work, so an overweight/understrong swimmer can be reunited
with their boat.

It takes quite a lot of arm-strength to get up on the bow in the first
place that seakayaks doesn't drop their nose like a playboat, under
load. Not to mention the round shape is rather hard to stay on.

It doesn't work too well in old-style general purpose boats for the
same reason - too much front buoyancy, and a round surface.


hilsen / regards


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Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire

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