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Other: stability with speed
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 9/3/2009, 10:35 am

I asked this on a boat design forum and got some responses but none really explaines what happens. Wonder if any of the designers here can really explain this. When a kayak is in motion it gains stability, anyone that's paddled a skinny kayak knows this, they are much more stable once moving than they are sitting at rest. Trying to figure out why this is, is the question. Actually looking at the water around the kayak at speed, wave at the bow, hollow under the middle and wave at the stern it should be less stable, but it isn't.

Bill H.

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Other: stability with speed
Bill Hamm -- 9/3/2009, 10:35 am
Hull pressure does it, Bill
Robert N Pruden -- 9/9/2009, 7:06 pm
Re: Hull pressure does it, Bill
Bill Hamm -- 9/10/2009, 10:19 am
Re: Hull pressure does it, Bill
Robert N Pruden -- 9/10/2009, 10:30 pm
Re: Hull pressure does it, Bill
Bill Hamm -- 9/11/2009, 9:07 am
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Drifter -- 9/5/2009, 7:33 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/6/2009, 12:21 am
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Toni V -- 9/4/2009, 6:40 am
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Craig Robinson -- 9/7/2009, 5:30 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/8/2009, 12:37 am
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DMonteith -- 9/3/2009, 12:06 pm
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Jeff Schaber -- 9/3/2009, 1:40 pm
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Allan -- 9/4/2009, 8:24 am
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frankp -- 9/3/2009, 3:19 pm
Re: Other: stability with speed *LINK*
Johnathan Akers -- 9/3/2009, 11:43 am
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johne -- 9/3/2009, 12:04 pm
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Johnathan Akers -- 9/3/2009, 1:21 pm