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Re: Other: Bow skeg
By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 6/2/2015, 9:45 pm
In Response To: Re: Other: Bow skeg (Jay Babina)

I don't like them for reasons having nothing to do with functionality. But if dealing with what we're discussing, the rudder would be the solution.

On one of my first outings in my 'rudder boat' (Panthera by Bjorn Thomasson), I had problems trying to turn upwind, trying to reverse course - in a high wind situation (>30 knots). Raising the rudder was one strategy that did work.
With the rudder down ('anchoring' the stern) the kayak ,quite naturally, wanted to turn downwind.
So a rudder isn't quite the 'steering wheel' some would imagine.
(Gybing around was another idea which occurred to me much later.)

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Other: Bow skeg *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 6/1/2015, 9:43 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/1/2015, 9:52 am
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Curtis Fisher -- 6/1/2015, 10:14 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/1/2015, 10:40 am
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Etienne Muller -- 6/1/2015, 12:09 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/1/2015, 12:16 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/1/2015, 12:20 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 6/1/2015, 2:01 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 6/1/2015, 2:33 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 6/1/2015, 3:47 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 6/1/2015, 8:37 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 6/1/2015, 3:08 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 6/1/2015, 4:03 pm
Paddling in Wind
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 6/1/2015, 5:29 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/1/2015, 5:47 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 6/1/2015, 5:56 pm
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Paul Davies. -- 6/1/2015, 4:32 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/1/2015, 5:52 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 6/1/2015, 8:03 pm
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Reg Lake -- 6/2/2015, 2:16 am
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Etienne Muller -- 6/2/2015, 4:13 am
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Jay Babina -- 6/2/2015, 6:13 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 6/2/2015, 7:26 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/2/2015, 9:38 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/3/2015, 12:21 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 6/3/2015, 8:15 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/3/2015, 9:19 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/2/2015, 9:45 pm
Photo or not
J vanburen -- 6/2/2015, 6:57 am
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Etienne Muller -- 6/2/2015, 7:01 am