[image] Sitting down on watch. When is it okay and why is it not acceptable? The concept is as antiquated as calling left and right port and starboard. Port and starboard are necessary terms, definitely not antiquated.

I always wondered whether the coracle people had invented the skeg. And if not how did they keep that thing from spinning like a top?

[image] dbeierl: I always wondered whether the coracle people had invented the skeg. And if not how did they keep that thing from spinning like a top? Same way you keep a highly rockered whitewater boat from spinning - skill and good technique. That kid seems to be showing a little of it, th…

My new avatar is the first time I sailed that dinghy age twelve or so. P class pram, eight feet, lots of rocker. The sail is Army shirt cloth, cut down from a sail Dad carried on his LCS in the war. But he built her for me years earlier, when I was four or so. And we put it in the York River at …

[image] jdcavo: Same way you keep a highly rockered whitewater boat from spinning That boat has enormous moment of inertia compared to a coracle. Very interesting form though – I didn’t know there were boats like that.

[image] dbeierl: …And if not how did they keep that thing from spinning like a top?.. I did never see a thing like this advancing in the water… From the images found, I would say, the only possibility to advance efficiently in a given direction would be to use a method called godille/wrecken…

[image] Urs: From the images found, I would say, the only possibility to advance efficiently in a given direction would be to use a method called godille/wrecken in French/German; I do not know the term in English. Sculling. I’d think you could also draw-paddle to some degree.

“The secret is not to work too hard”

[image] dbeierl: Sculling… Yes, Wikipedia helps always: The right Wiki-chapter for what i thought, would be ‘Single-Oar Sculling’.

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Dutchie August 12, 2020, 1:07pm 98

I suppose that this word covers it for what it is.

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