: I actually made some graphs: waterline length vs speed and It's difficult to
: see the correlation shorter kayaks being faster. At 8 km/h and above,
: waterline length starts to help because less wave making resistance.

: Just paddling at 6 km/h or so you can do it with shorter kayak just fine. In
: some chop it will be worse than longer one. But in other hand, shorter can
: be better in tight chop.

: I would add one thing - longer kayaks can look better because they are slim.

: ps. I've now got 53 kayaks in my virtual pool. Almost all can be downloaded
: as Freeship models too.

: Toni.

6 km/h is pretty slow

Bill H.