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Re: Mayday Mayday! boat goes left
By:NPenney
Date: 7/7/1998, 7:33 am
In Response To: Mayday Mayday! boat goes left (David Walker)

You don't say how hard it likes to turn left. It it was just a predication for drifting left, I'd live with and occassionally give a lazy right paddle stroke. Which to me, is no big deal. Which probably indicates to everyone that I don't have a particular paddling style. I've yet to meet the machine that didn't have a drifting personality. Be it car, plane, motorcycle or any form of boat.

If you feel it simply must have mechanical correction, and you like the small skegs, go with that. It's quite simple to mount a pinned or bolted skeg that allows you to make trim adjustments by loostening the bolt, rotating the skeg a bit, and retightening.

Messages In This Thread

Mayday Mayday! boat goes left
David Walker -- 7/6/1998, 9:17 pm
Re: Try another paddler
Jay Babina -- 7/7/1998, 2:32 pm
Re: Mayday Mayday! boat goes left
Mark Kanzler -- 7/7/1998, 11:51 am
Re: rudders
NPenney -- 7/8/1998, 8:17 am
Re: Aspect ratio.
Mark Kanzler -- 7/8/1998, 11:21 am
Re: Aspect ratio.
NPenney -- 7/8/1998, 2:34 pm
Re: Aspect ratio.
Nick Schade -- 7/8/1998, 3:17 pm
Re: Higher Aspect ratio = No Steering
NPenney -- 7/9/1998, 7:49 am
Re: Higher Aspect ratio = No Steering
Mark Kanzler -- 7/9/1998, 10:38 am
Re: Higher Aspect ratio = No Steering
NPenney -- 7/9/1998, 11:50 am
Re: Old Textbooks, etc.
Mark Kanzler -- 7/11/1998, 12:52 am
Re: Old Textbooks, etc.
NPenney -- 7/10/1998, 2:53 pm
Re: Here's a sketch of one possible solution (as described in prev post)
Mark Kanzler -- 7/8/1998, 12:41 am
Image link still not working.
Mike Spence -- 7/7/1998, 1:28 pm
Re: Image link still not working. (Sorry)
Mark Kanzler -- 7/7/1998, 1:56 pm
Re: Image working.(?)
Mark Kanzler -- 7/8/1998, 1:26 am
Not yet. - Don't despair!
Mike Spence -- 7/8/1998, 1:19 pm
Re: Not yet. - Don't despair!
Mark Kanzler -- 7/8/1998, 2:18 pm
Re: Here it is! (Satisfaction Guaranteed)
Mark Kanzler -- 7/8/1998, 10:23 pm
Re: Here it is! (Satisfaction Guaranteed)
David Walker -- 7/10/1998, 10:28 am
Re: Surfbard skegs.
Mark Kanzler -- 7/10/1998, 11:58 am
Re: Surfbard skegs.
David Walker -- 7/10/1998, 1:49 pm
Re: Surfbard skegs.
David Walker -- 7/10/1998, 5:30 pm
Re: Surfbard skegs.
Mark Kanzler -- 7/12/1998, 11:08 am
Re: Surfbard skegs.
Paul Jacobson -- 7/12/1998, 7:18 pm
Re: Surfbard skegs site (try it again please).
Mark Kanzler -- 7/10/1998, 2:50 pm
Re: Surfbard skegs site (try it again please).
Mike Spence -- 7/10/1998, 6:51 pm
Re: Here it is! (Satisfaction Guaranteed)
Nick Schade -- 7/9/1998, 4:12 pm
Re: Here it is! (Satisfaction Guaranteed)
Mark Kanzler -- 7/11/1998, 12:37 am
Re: Mayday Mayday! boat goes left
Mark Kanzler -- 7/8/1998, 12:39 am
My $0.02
CHad -- 7/7/1998, 11:29 am
P.S.
CHad -- 7/7/1998, 11:56 am
Re: P.S.
Guy Wright -- 7/7/1998, 1:46 pm
Me Too!
Shawn Baker -- 7/8/1998, 11:01 am
Re: Mayday Mayday! boat goes left
NPenney -- 7/7/1998, 7:33 am
how I solved mine.
R. N. Sabolevsky -- 7/6/1998, 11:56 pm
Re: Mayday Mayday! boat goes left
Duane Strosaker -- 7/6/1998, 11:38 pm
Re: Mayday Mayday! boat goes left
Mike Spence -- 7/7/1998, 12:11 pm
Re: Mayday Mayday! boat goes left
Paul Jacobson -- 7/6/1998, 11:20 pm
Off center fins and water flow
David Walker -- 7/8/1998, 5:28 pm
Re: Off center fins and water flow
NPenney -- 7/9/1998, 11:57 am
Re: Off center fins and water flow
Mike Spence -- 7/9/1998, 5:56 pm
Re: Off center fins and water flow
Paul Jacobson -- 7/11/1998, 2:53 am
Re: Off center fins and water flow
Mark Kanzler -- 7/10/1998, 11:47 am
Re: Off center fins and water flow
NPenney -- 7/10/1998, 6:22 am
Re: Skegs and water flow.
Mark Kanzler -- 7/8/1998, 6:10 pm
Re: Skegs and water flow.
David Walker -- 7/8/1998, 6:42 pm
Re: Skegs and water flow.
Mark Kanzler -- 7/8/1998, 7:07 pm
Re: Skegs and water flow.
David Walker -- 7/10/1998, 10:37 am
Re: Skeg attachment w/ silicone.
Mark Kanzler -- 7/10/1998, 11:34 am
Re: Mayday Mayday! boat goes left
Wes Boyd -- 7/6/1998, 10:36 pm