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Re: Strip: Outer Island question
By:Ted Henry
Date: 9/7/2008, 10:23 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Outer Island question (Andrew Elizaga)

The most wind I saw in this boat was about 10 and it behaved fine (it was empty). Certainly it would leecock if you put the skeg down or maybe if you loaded up just the rear compartment. With the skeg retracted it was reasonably neutral and showed no bad traits that I could detect. I suspect that if one ever let the boat get broadside in stiff winds, with such strong tracking it might be a very difficult boat to get pointed back upwind. As far as I could see the skeg serves no purpose in this design.

Ted

: Hi Ted,

: I remember reading a review somewhere where someone wrote that the Outer
: Island has a problem with LEECOCKING. They said this was really the fatal
: flaw in the OI design, because you can't fix it by putting down the skeg.
: In fact, because of the leecocking, it didn't make any sense for the OI to
: have a retractable skeg at all. Did you find that to be your experience
: paddling the OI?

: Andrew

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Strip: Outer Island question
James -- 9/5/2008, 1:23 pm
Re: Strip: Outer Island question
Ken Blanton -- 9/5/2008, 6:27 pm
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Tommy -- 9/5/2008, 3:41 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 9/5/2008, 6:35 pm
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Tommy -- 9/6/2008, 1:48 pm
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John Caldeira -- 9/6/2008, 8:41 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 9/6/2008, 6:28 pm
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Tommy -- 9/8/2008, 3:06 pm
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John Caldeira -- 9/5/2008, 3:25 pm
Re: Strip: Outer Island question
Ted Henry -- 9/5/2008, 2:44 pm
Re: Strip: Outer Island question
Andrew Elizaga -- 9/7/2008, 7:12 pm
Re: Strip: Outer Island question
Ted Henry -- 9/7/2008, 10:23 pm
Re: Strip: Outer Island question
Tim from Canberra -- 9/8/2008, 1:00 am
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Tommy -- 9/8/2008, 9:05 am
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Bryan Hansel -- 9/8/2008, 10:22 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 9/9/2008, 9:35 pm
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Scott Fitzgerrell -- 9/16/2008, 8:22 pm
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Tom Raymond -- 9/10/2008, 9:34 am
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Bryan Hansel -- 9/10/2008, 6:18 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 9/10/2008, 6:39 pm
WOW...That was fast! *NM*
Tom Raymond -- 9/11/2008, 1:24 pm
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John Caldeira -- 9/7/2008, 7:22 pm
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Jim Hegg -- 9/7/2008, 8:14 pm
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