Thanks
I look forward to seeing the pictures.
“Suck water”
I paddle with folks that are into racing kayaks. They oft times will describe shallow waters as “suck waters” and they will deliberately try to avoid suck water because it takes so much more energy to maintain their speed during the race.
While racing on rivers they will stay more in the center of the river while going around a river-bend. They do this in order to avoid the shallow suck waters even though they know that they will have to travel a greater distance around the bend by not “cutting the corner”. It turns out to be faster and less tiring by staying out of the shallow suck waters.
Shallow effects
starting with page 112…
http://books.google.com/books?id=potMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=ship+shallow+resistance&source=web&ots=iLQLzbEWe2&sig=8I6RZ95LGPZseccGl7nZs_u356U&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA112,M1
Texas Towers
http://www.texastowers.com/
It costs too much to ship longer than 6’ pieces but a 1" diameter piece will make a nice ferule to join two 1.125" diameter pieces. Plug the ends with delrin or oak doweling and you’re good to go.
~Tommy
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Davbart - I’ve posted to Paddlers Place with a link to a photo essay. See the new “Aluminum canoe pole construction” thread.
Thanks for the post
Very interesting reading and confirms my kinda-sorta understanding. I learned a few things, among which is the source for the name of the former David Taylor naval research facility near Annapolis on the Severn. I frequently paddle by there. It’s decommissioned now and a lot of the research activity was moved over to the model basin facility near Carderock. Thanks for posting. ~~Chip