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Re: weathercocking
By:Rob Macks
Date: 3/26/2001, 12:15 pm
In Response To: Re: weathercocking (Julie Kanarr)

: Okay-- now I'm getting confused. (It's Monday.) What the original poster
: described is "leecocking" -- the inability to point the bow into
: the wind (the opposite of weathercocking.) Adding weight to the stern
: decreases weathercocking, adding weight to the bow increases
: weathercocking, right? If he adds weight to the stern (either by
: ballasting or moving the seat further aft, wouldn't that make his problem
: worse? Doesn't the lighter end of the boat (in this scenario, the bow)
: have the tendency to be blown downwind? Or do I have that backwards......?

You're right, I'm wrong. Monday ech!

Rob Macks
Laughing Loon CC&K
www.LaughingLoon.com

Messages In This Thread

weathercocking
Bruce -- 3/25/2001, 6:27 pm
Is the seat where it should be - are you sure? *NM*
risto -- 3/27/2001, 11:02 am
Re: one more opinion
Dave Houser -- 3/26/2001, 3:56 pm
Re: one more opinion
Eric Schade (shearwater boats) -- 3/26/2001, 7:32 pm
all kayaks wethercock
Jay Babina -- 3/26/2001, 10:59 am
Re: all kayaks wethercock
Jay Babina -- 3/27/2001, 9:39 am
Re: purist
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 3/28/2001, 9:10 am
Re: purist
Julie Kanarr -- 3/28/2001, 11:01 am
Re:fundamentalist kayaking?
Lee Gardner -- 3/28/2001, 12:22 pm
Re: all kayaks wethercock
Roy Morford -- 3/27/2001, 10:25 am
The rudder, the greatest step in kayak evolution
Hans Friedel -- 3/28/2001, 5:32 am
Re: The rudder, the greatest step in kayak evoluti
Roy Morford -- 3/28/2001, 10:09 am
Re: all kayaks wethercock
Eric Schade (shearwater boats) -- 3/26/2001, 7:24 pm
Re: Rudders are OK
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 3/26/2001, 1:29 pm
Ditto on my Guillemot
Pete Rudie -- 3/26/2001, 11:33 am
BTW...
Pete Rudie -- 3/26/2001, 11:40 am
Re: weathercocking
Lee Gardner -- 3/26/2001, 9:56 am
Re: weathercocking
Rob Macks -- 3/26/2001, 9:49 am
Re: weathercocking
Julie Kanarr -- 3/26/2001, 11:45 am
Re: weathercocking
Rob Macks -- 3/26/2001, 12:15 pm
Re: weathercocking
Julie Kanarr -- 3/26/2001, 12:40 pm
Re: weathercocking
peter czerpak -- 3/26/2001, 8:04 am
Re: weathercocking
David Dick -- 3/26/2001, 6:50 am
Re: weathercocking
Jim -- 3/25/2001, 7:46 pm
Re: weathercocking
Julie Kanarr -- 3/25/2001, 7:25 pm