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Re: Strip: Deck shapes
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 4/14/2008, 1:13 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Deck shapes (Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K)

: If you're a fair weather paddler you can do anything you want with your deck
: shape, but if you paddle in rough water you'll find out fast, why the
: Brits made their Greenland inspired kayaks with a peaked fore deck.

: A flatish fore deck will give you a face full of water in rough seas. As the
: bow dives and water piles up on the fore deck the water will be catapulted
: into your face. A peaked deck will shed water to the sides as the bow
: rises.

: Rob

Doesn't on my NDK Greenlander and it's foredeck is darned near dead flat.

Bill H.

: If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other
: way.
: Mark Twain

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Deck shapes
Kudzu -- 4/13/2008, 12:37 am
Re: Strip: Deck shapes *Pic*
Andy Waddington -- 4/14/2008, 6:08 am
Re: Strip: Deck shapes *Pic*
Kudzu -- 4/14/2008, 5:11 pm
Re: Strip: Deck shapes
Reg Lake -- 4/13/2008, 12:54 pm
Re: Strip: Deck shapes
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 4/13/2008, 12:24 pm
Re: Strip: Deck shapes
Kudzu -- 4/14/2008, 5:15 pm
Re: Strip: Deck shapes
Bill Hamm -- 4/15/2008, 1:38 am
Re: Strip: Deck shapes
Bill Hamm -- 4/14/2008, 1:13 am
Re: Strip: Deck shapes
Bill Hamm -- 4/13/2008, 1:14 am
Re: Strip: Deck shapes *Pic*
Gennie -- 4/13/2008, 3:23 am
Front not the rear deck
Kudzu -- 4/13/2008, 9:10 am
Re: Front not the rear deck
T Hanson -- 4/13/2008, 10:32 am