Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 09:05:44 -0800 (PST)
From: George Dyson <gdyson@janice.cc.wwu.edu>
To: Guillemot@aol.com
Subject: Re: Traditional Kayak Designs
In-Reply-To: <950313220047_48640691@aol.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.ULT.3.91.950314085712.10482C-100000@janice.cc.wwu.edu>
The papers are compliments of the BHS.
There's lots of anecdotal references to paddling cadence in the historical
literature but nothing with any relative scale of magnitude like
references to speed in knots...
Paddling was done using a sliding stroke technique--a whole subject to
itself, that has never been properly investigated. And the paddles had
some strange and not very well-understood forms... I'm not saying there
was any great mystery here, but a lot of subtle details that fit
together, and added up.
George B. Dyson Fairhaven College / MS 9118
gdyson@henson.cc.wwu.edu Western Washington University
(360) 734-9226 Bellingham, WA 98225-9118