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Re: hull design
By:Mark Kanzler
Date: 8/31/1998, 1:56 pm
In Response To: Re: hull design (Paul Jacobson)

I think this needs a little clarification. If all you do is lower the seat closer to the foorboards, you wil not change the freeboard. You will have to hold your paddle higher up, which may or may not be awkward, depending on the boat.

> Keeping your weight as low as possible in the boat lowers your center of
> gravity, and increases your feeling of stability. but it does this at the
> expense of freeboard, or the amount of the boat that is above the water
> line.

Messages In This Thread

hull design
Mark Ostrenga -- 8/30/1998, 11:13 pm
Re: hull design
Paul Jacobson -- 8/31/1998, 3:14 am
Re: hull design
Mark Kanzler -- 8/31/1998, 1:56 pm
I am corrected again
Paul Jacobson -- 8/31/1998, 8:22 pm
Re: I am corrected again
Mark Kanzler -- 9/1/1998, 10:27 am
Re: I am corrected again
Nolan Penney -- 9/2/1998, 11:32 am
Re: I am corrected again
Mark Kanzler -- 9/2/1998, 11:40 am
Alcohol powered boaters
Timothy - Toronto, Ontario -- 9/2/1998, 8:46 am
Re: Alcohol powered boaters
Don Beale -- 9/2/1998, 11:44 am
Re: Alcohol in the shop.
Mark Kanzler -- 9/3/1998, 12:45 am
Remember THAT hand?
Mike Kestell -- 9/3/1998, 12:11 pm
Re: Remember THAT hand?
Mark Kanzler -- 9/3/1998, 11:31 am
Re: Alcohol powered boaters
Mark Kanzler -- 9/2/1998, 11:27 am
Re: I am corrected again
Timothy - Toronto, Ontario -- 9/1/1998, 4:09 pm
Re: I am corrected again
Mark Kanzler -- 9/1/1998, 4:35 pm
Sticky Links
Mike Spence -- 9/1/1998, 4:59 pm
Re: Sticky Links
Nick Schade -- 9/2/1998, 2:53 pm
Re: Sticky Links
Mark Kanzler -- 9/2/1998, 3:54 pm