Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Tippy Kayaks

Well-designed kayaks wiggle easily in the water. You actually need to lean your kayak in order to turn it. When you are sitting in your kayak, you will feel that it is easy to tilt your boat a few degrees, but increasingly hard to make it lean any further. Then, it feels almost impossible to go any further. This is called secondary stability. That means a kayak is easy to lean and very hard to flip, no matter how "tippy" it feels.

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