ccarlson Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 Found this on another forum... appears to be a compendium of Water Resistance vs. Speed data from past "Seakayaker" boat reviews. http://www.unold.dk/paddling/articles/kayakvelocity.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Nystrom Posted February 19, 2004 Share Posted February 19, 2004 Now, if they would only review a boat I've actually owned... :-(I'm quite surprized to see that a hard chine design came out on top in the 4-5 knot ranking, followed by a bunch of rounded hulls that I would have expected to have less drag. Then again, it's a 19' boat with a waterline over 17'. It makes me wonder how the Betsie Bay boats would rank.Yikes! I just checked the price of a Hawk. $5200! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccarlson Posted February 19, 2004 Author Share Posted February 19, 2004 Yeah, many of the more esoteric boats have escaped reviews by SK :-) Anyway, if you have some time on your hands, Matt Broze's spreadsheet that calculates all this stuff is available on their website. You'll just need to do a lot of measuring of your hulls in order to use it! http://www.marinerkayaks.com/mkhtml/downloads.htm Have fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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