Subject: Re: [baidarka] Finished!
From: kirk olsen (kolsen@imaginelan.com)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2001 - 13:25:59 EDT
Forwarded for ["P Gudac" <djop@hotmail.com>]
>To improve your kayak's stability, the more you can flatten and widen the hull
>the more stable it will get. I think I would try doing this with the skin on
>as someone suggested. Getting it just an inch flatter, which would make it a
>bit wider too, should help.
>
>And anything you can do to lower the CG will help, lower your seat if
>possible, and strap a ballast weight as low as possible in the hull will lower
>your average CG height. To be most effective it must be below the waterline
>in the bottom of the hull. Try it.
Would it be at all feasible or desirable to raise the roll axis further
above the CG by sharpening the hull ends, displacing immersed volume upwards
for the same paddling weight (and thereby same volume)?
P. Gudac
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