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Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 9/28/2011, 2:50 am
In Response To: Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye" (Bryan Hansel)

: Sit up straight. :) Add a skeg to improve tracking. The bow does
: seem high to me. To help, you need to use a balance board to
: find your center of gravity (see Cunningham's Building the
: Greenland Kayak http://amzn.to/obohMt ), and then align your
: center of gravity with the kayak's center of buoyancy. Usually,
: if you put a backband about 4 or 5 inches from the back of the
: cockpit, everything lines up.

If you learn to sit up straight when you're paddling, you don't need a back band :)

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Launching: Petrel "Fisheye" *PIC*
Rick Jensen -- 9/26/2011, 9:29 pm
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye" *NM* *PIC*
Rick Jensen -- 9/26/2011, 9:38 pm
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye" *PIC*
Rick Jensen -- 9/26/2011, 9:49 pm
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
dave g -- 9/26/2011, 9:51 pm
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Bill Hamm -- 9/27/2011, 1:50 am
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Bob Johns -- 9/27/2011, 4:11 am
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
jim meinecke -- 9/27/2011, 5:16 pm
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/27/2011, 4:15 am
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Mike Bielski -- 9/27/2011, 8:47 am
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Bryan Hansel -- 9/27/2011, 10:41 am
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Bill Hamm -- 9/28/2011, 2:50 am
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Sean D -- 9/28/2011, 7:35 am
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2011, 2:08 am