Freestyle canoeing
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Freestyle canoeing
Not Cape Dory but worth to watch.
http://www.wimp.com/freestylecanoeing/
http://www.wimp.com/freestylecanoeing/
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Re: Freestyle canoeing
Jacob:
Thanks for posting this. It is a great video and wonderful music to accompany the performance.
Thanks for posting this. It is a great video and wonderful music to accompany the performance.
Fair winds,
Roberto
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Roberto
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Re: Freestyle canoeing
I have seen this before and this guy is a master at flat water canoe control. I still can't imagine spending the time it would take to achieve these skills, for a competition, in front of a handful of admiring spectators but that is what makes the world an interesting place.
This is also a fine illustration of initial and final stability that relates to our boats. Watch carefully as he enters the boat and when it is not heeled during any of his maneuvers. That boat has very little initial stability as witnessed by the wobble even this expert experiences. Once heeled to the gunnels he is very stable. This relates very well to a Cape Dory hull once it reaches 15* of heel.
For any of you that complain about the instability of hard dinghies, you could spend a bit more time in a canoe, Steve.
This is also a fine illustration of initial and final stability that relates to our boats. Watch carefully as he enters the boat and when it is not heeled during any of his maneuvers. That boat has very little initial stability as witnessed by the wobble even this expert experiences. Once heeled to the gunnels he is very stable. This relates very well to a Cape Dory hull once it reaches 15* of heel.
For any of you that complain about the instability of hard dinghies, you could spend a bit more time in a canoe, Steve.
Re: Freestyle canoeing
I still can't imagine spending the time it would take to achieve these skills, for a competition, in front of a handful of admiring spectators
In front of a handful of admiring spectators? This video has been seen by over 770,000 people on you tube!
Live performances are so twentieth century.
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Does the bow tie impact stability?
Fair winds, Neil
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Re: Freestyle canoeing
No life vest, untethered, no registration, no flares or throwable PFD . . .I think the bowtie was there to try and make a good impression should the Coast Guard show up.
No tiller and no prop to lock.
No tiller and no prop to lock.
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Re: Freestyle canoeing
I am so 20th century that it never even occurred to me that I was one of the nearly one million people who had watched this on U Tube.Gary H wrote:I still can't imagine spending the time it would take to achieve these skills, for a competition, in front of a handful of admiring spectators
In front of a handful of admiring spectators? This video has been seen by over 770,000 people on you tube!
Live performances are so twentieth century.
The guy is a master and deserves the virtual crowd he is drawing. They do doubles freestyle canoeing as well and it is truly an art, Steve.
Re: Freestyle canoeing
I've done most of those moves over the years, it just wasn't choreographed. It was inadvertent freestyle. ![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
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Re: Freestyle canoeing
I did one of those moves once in an Old Town Tripper. Did you know that those things only have neutral buoyancy (at best) oops: And very little stability when inverted.
That exhibition was amazing.
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That exhibition was amazing.
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Freestyle canoeing
Now that I think about it I've done most of those moves also; in a YMCA canoe on Pontoosuc Lake. My moves were not carefully choreographed to music, nor were there a lot of spectators - except the usual YMCA club weekend crowd. My moves were also a lot more frenetic than the artist in the video. I was just trying to keep from going in the water. The only thing I ever learned about that canoe experience was how to climb back into the canoe after tipping over. After you have climbed back in 25-30 times in less than one hour you actually get pretty good at it - climbing back in that is.Jim Walsh wrote:I've done most of those moves over the years, it just wasn't choreographed. It was inadvertent freestyle.
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Fair winds,
Roberto
a/k/a Sea Hunt "The Tadpole Sailor"
CDSOA #1097
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"I wish to have no Connection with any Ship that does not Sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way." Captain John Paul Jones, 16 November 1778, as quoted in Naval History and Heritage Command, http://www.history.navy.mil
Roberto
a/k/a Sea Hunt "The Tadpole Sailor"
CDSOA #1097
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"I wish to have no Connection with any Ship that does not Sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way." Captain John Paul Jones, 16 November 1778, as quoted in Naval History and Heritage Command, http://www.history.navy.mil
Re: Freestyle canoeing
I presume this was when we were all much younger, or the water was very, very, coldSea Hunt Video wrote:After you have climbed back in 25-30 times in less than one hour you actually get pretty good at it - climbing back in that is.Jim Walsh wrote:I've done most of those moves over the years, it just wasn't choreographed. It was inadvertent freestyle.
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Re: Freestyle canoeing
I have a short plastic whitewater kayak and a 17" sea kayak but my favorite is a 70s vintage, fiberglass, 14' slalom boat. It is fairly fast but it spins and turns quick and smoothly. It gives me the feeling of what that canoe looks like. It can't swamp and it rolls back up if you flip.
It's a great little boat, Steve.
It's a great little boat, Steve.