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Re: racing sea kayak designs

Posted By: Hans Friedel
Date: Thursday, 13 January 2000, at 3:52 p.m.

In Response To: racing sea kayak designs (lee)

> ok,ok, I'll look into the archives , work
> with me please. curious about the categories
> for recreational racing. It appears that
> there are categories for traditional sea
> kayak , fast sea kayay, and high performance
> or open. In puget sound I've found Sound
> Rowers paddling clubs categories based on
> waterline length/beam ratio. Ratios
> something like traditional= 9 11. Have
> rounded off and running on memory(yikes).
> CCK and SeaTrek in S.F. have
> traditional,fast traditional and open based
> purely on width and length no categories by
> ratio of the specific boat. Does anybody out
> there have experience with races in Canada
> and elsewhere for categories in the less
> than X-par missle set.

The only ratio rule I know is for Marathon C-2. Witch states thath the beam should be 14.3% of the length

But it is a no good rule because the darn designers adds wings on the boats

But without wings it makes a nice crusing boat

Hans

Messages In This Thread

racing sea kayak designs
lee -- Wednesday, 12 January 2000, at 8:27 p.m.

Re: racing sea kayak designs
Nick Schade -- Thursday, 13 January 2000, at 10:26 a.m.

Re: racing sea kayak designs
Hans Friedel -- Thursday, 13 January 2000, at 3:52 p.m.

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