No, I'm talking about still water.
Whirl pools are another matter. :O)
Bob Noble
http://www.sonic.net/bnoble
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From: "Kevin" <pembertonkevin@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 8:56 AM
To: <electricboats@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Water movement around a hull
> We are talking about whirl pools right? I have been caught in them with
> my old 6ton sailboat. Current traveling past some obstruction visible or
> not, we are warned about them in books like Chapmans.
> This is a big problem along the mid-rift islands in the Sea of Cortez,
> and I am sure many other places where current is rapid enough. Many
> shrimpers boats have succumbed to these things.
>
> Kevin Pemberton
>
>
> On 08/19/2010 12:03 AM, Bob Noble wrote:
>>
>> I guess I need to weight in here too.
>> My boot is twelve and a half feet long and the tonnage with me in it, is
>> about 260 pounds.
>> A kayak.
>> The main thing is I am more intimate with the water than large boats.
>> I can
>> feel more of what is going on. Oh, I also kayak the Lower Russian River
>> almost everyday, all year long for the last eight years or so.
>> Now, it's interesting, this discussion. I've experience an effect that I
>> just couldn't quite figure out until you guys started talking about it.
>> I'd be going along the shore line parallel to it, maybe three to ten
>> feet or
>> so from the shore. All of a sudden, my boat would turn away form the
>> shore,
>> forcibly.
>>
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