Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:23:39 EST
From: MRPK81A@prodigy.com (MR TOM L CLARKE)
Message-Id: <013.04630074.MRPK81A@prodigy.com>
To: baidarka@imagelan.com
Subject: Paddling...
(I apologize for my last message not going to everyone...I
forgot that *P does not use the LISTSRVE return to
address... I have to manually enter it each time)
George, you said that the kayak moves forward in relation to
how hard I pull...whether the end of the paddle is a pencil
or a pizza...(a little poetic paraphrasing on my part)...
OK... let's say I rig up a contraption on my kayak that
provides for a 5 lb weight to be suspended by a line and set
of pulleys such that when the weight is released, it moves a
'clamp' back, in a straight line, toward the stern... I can
attach anything to the clamp... a pencil, a
pizza, a paddle, whatever...
Are you saying that if I attach a pencil to my clamp, the
kayak will move forward as far and as fast as it would if I
used a paddle in the clamp?
My intuition says that the paddle version would move the
kayak further... the pencil version would create a lot of
turbulence in the water, but not move the kayak (much)...
TLC..(confused)