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Re: cockpit placement
By:Mike Scarborough
Date: 10/11/1998, 6:56 pm
In Response To: cockpit placement (clayton jacobs)

I checked my copy of the book and I agree with you; the cockpit locations are not specified. It could be an oversight, but there are also reasons not to specify a standard cockpit location on a double.

In a single most paddlers will place their center of gravity in about the same location. (Usually pretty close to their belly button.) So a standard cockpit location works because the paddler load winds up close to the same location. In a double the center of gravity of a pair of paddlers can be all over the place. So there is no one answer on cockpit location.

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cockpit placement
clayton jacobs -- 10/6/1998, 11:42 pm
Re: cockpit placement: Picture
Nick Schade -- 10/12/1998, 3:11 pm
Re: cockpit placement: Picture?
Nick Schade -- 10/12/1998, 3:13 pm
Re: cockpit placement
Mike Scarborough -- 10/11/1998, 6:56 pm