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Re: where do I start?

Posted By: Mike Scarborough
Date: Thursday, 19 August 2004, at 10:01 a.m.

In Response To: Re: where do I start? (mary)

Mary--

I haven't read all of the preceeding thread, but I think you are understanding how a skeg works very well. Deploying the skeg changes the underwater shape of the kayak and the point around which it wants to pivot. Wind, which causes lee and weathercocking, acts on the above water portion of the kayak and if we sum all the winds forces we can say it acts through a point called the center of pressure. When you adjust your skeg to move the underwater pivot point close to the center of pressure you feel that the kayak is more neutral, neither weather or leecocking.

For the purposes of this discussing I think you can use leecock and lee helm interchangeably.

Mike Scarborough
Friendship Kayak

Messages In This Thread

weather cocking + blowing out to sea
barb todd -- Sunday, 6 May 2001, at 7:56 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
Mike Scarborough -- Sunday, 6 May 2001, at 9:13 a.m.

weather cocking -lee cocking???
Robert N Pruden -- Saturday, 17 July 2004, at 4:27 p.m.

Re: weather cocking -lee cocking???
Jay Doorly -- Sunday, 18 July 2004, at 1:56 a.m.

Re: weather cocking -lee cocking???
Robert N Pruden -- Sunday, 18 July 2004, at 10:08 a.m.

Re: weather cocking -lee cocking???
Jay Doorly -- Monday, 19 July 2004, at 10:25 p.m.

Re: weather cocking -lee cocking???
Malcolm Schweizer -- Sunday, 18 July 2004, at 9:46 a.m.

Aye, matey, thankee much fer 'elpin' me unnastan *NM*
Robert N Pruden -- Sunday, 18 July 2004, at 9:57 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
LeeG. -- Sunday, 6 May 2001, at 10:04 a.m.

sweep strokes - - - -
Dan -- Sunday, 6 May 2001, at 5:45 p.m.

Re: sweep strokes - - - -
Tim -- Sunday, 6 May 2001, at 6:56 p.m.

Re: sweep strokes - - - -
LeeG -- Thursday, 10 May 2001, at 11:48 p.m.

Re: sweep strokes - - - -
Shawn Baker -- Friday, 11 May 2001, at 1:26 p.m.

Re: sweep strokes - - - -
LeeG -- Friday, 11 May 2001, at 6:55 p.m.

Re: sweep strokes - - - - and rudders
risto -- Saturday, 12 May 2001, at 7:05 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
LeeG. -- Sunday, 6 May 2001, at 7:59 p.m.

Re: sweep strokes with a rudder...
Shawn Baker -- Monday, 7 May 2001, at 10:27 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
WesT -- Monday, 7 May 2001, at 12:01 p.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
LeeG. -- Tuesday, 8 May 2001, at 1:27 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
LeeG. -- Tuesday, 8 May 2001, at 9:13 a.m.

Re: That pretty much says it all *NM*
Shawn Baker -- Wednesday, 9 May 2001, at 11:28 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
WesT -- Tuesday, 8 May 2001, at 9:31 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
LeeG. -- Tuesday, 8 May 2001, at 10:12 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
Linda -- Tuesday, 8 May 2001, at 10:02 p.m.

I hesitate tackling this one...
risto -- Monday, 7 May 2001, at 10:36 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
tom -- Monday, 7 May 2001, at 11:56 a.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
Mike Scarborough -- Monday, 7 May 2001, at 7:19 p.m.

Weathercocking/Open Ocean Kayaking
Brianne Corbett -- Monday, 7 May 2001, at 7:55 p.m.

Re: Weathercocking/Open Ocean Kayaking
Rod Estvan -- Thursday, 10 May 2001, at 4:43 p.m.

Re: Weathercocking/Open Ocean Kayaking
Brianne Corbett -- Thursday, 10 May 2001, at 5:44 p.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
mary -- Friday, 16 July 2004, at 11:07 p.m.

where do I start?
M. Hamilton -- Tuesday, 20 July 2004, at 1:26 a.m.

Re: where do I start?
tiva -- Sunday, 25 July 2004, at 8:48 a.m.

Re: where do I start?
mary -- Wednesday, 18 August 2004, at 10:10 p.m.

Re: where do I start?
Mike Scarborough -- Thursday, 19 August 2004, at 10:01 a.m.

Re: where do I start?
davemcadoo -- Monday, 23 August 2004, at 4:11 p.m.

Re: weather cocking + blowing out to sea
phil -- Friday, 20 August 2004, at 5:54 a.m.

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