Re: Filippi carbon fin
Maybe one could have swappable fins! :-) Like tires for cyclists: one
fin for training, another for racing. Nah, just buy two boats. ;^)
-Kieran
When racing on the Amstel River in eights, we do swap fins - the river fins
being much smaller in area, and less deep, than '2k' fins.
Rutger
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- Re: Filippi carbon fin
... Nah, just buy two boats. ... fins being much smaller in area, and less deep, than '2k' fins. ... I was surprised to still see some eights equipped with "Amstel rudder" (but with racing fin) on the first 2k regatta on the Bosbaan last weekend. ...
(rec.sport.rowing) - Re: Willy Skipper
... feet in order to get to water that's deep enough to accommodate ... That's what Andy was doing -- crossing water that was ... too shallow for his fin. ...
(rec.windsurfing) - Re: Is there an optimum fin shape?
... Well, yes there is an optimum shape, which will minimise drag and ... maximise stability, but ..... ... is one fin optimum? ... boat builder to supply their boats with a number of really easily ...
(rec.sport.rowing) - Re: Filippi carbon fin
... I forwarded some of the minutiae to my good friend Charlie Hamlin (ex ... Are we really supposed to believe that fin ... Neither does Empacher maker of fast boats with flat plates of aluminum ... drag at angles of attack + or - 5 or so degrees. ...
(rec.sport.rowing) - Re: Filippi carbon fin
... A fin that does not generate lift when inclined to the flow direction, despite being beneath the boat, does nothing except produce drag. ... contrast to those who row the yellow boats with their fins placed well ...
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