I have the Tern and it does weather cock when I have a cross wind and waves hitting my stern, no matter what I did I had to paddle double on my right side. I posted this question before and everyone said it was how I paddled or how I trimmed out the boat. I couldn't lift the boat myself when fully loaded so how can I trim it perfectly? So instead I put on a skeg, presto the problem is gone! I don't know how any designer can say their boat does not weather cock, unless it does not stick out of the water?

> Could people who have Greenland style boats like the Tern please comment
> on tendancy to get pushed around by the wind or waves when they are not
> taken head on?

> Is this just a function of the bow and stern sticking up fairly high out
> of the water?

> Thanks, Pete czerpak Albany, NY

> Ps. still pondering a decision to build a Shearwater greenland style
> boat.......