Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 08:45:27 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <199807261545.IAA29240@ns.intelenet.net>
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: redcanoe@pangea.ca (Douglas Ingram)
Subject: Re: [baidarka] paddling
A comfortable cadence for me while
>paddlign my canoe is 45 + strokes a minute, I feel like I am always telling
>my paddling partners to paddle faster! They just don't get it- shorter
>storkes more often...
I just remembered somthing else that is important.
The relative, or apparent density of water increases dramatically with an
increase in the velocity of that which is encountering the water. ERGO the
faster the initial part of the stroke, the more effect your paddle will have
for the same overall effort expended. The slower the stroke, the more
opportunity there is for water to slip around the paddle blade and not
contribut to your forward motion. Wide blades cause water to backpile and
try to slip around in an uneven way, causing the blade to flutter. This is
most apparent in canoe paddles over 7" wide, and very annoying over 8".
Douglas Ingram
Red River Canoe & Paddle
P.O. Box 78, GRP 4, RR 2
Lorette, Manitoba
Canada
ROA OYO
(204)878-2524
URL: www.wilds.mb.ca/redriver
e-mail: redcanoe@pangea.ca