More Paddling Practice Tempe Town Lake

Article By Shorty


More Paddling Practice At The Lake
After a couple of practice sessions, it was looking like the best time was with less girls. A single girl by herself could beat the entire team working together.



All sorts of combinations were tried, and the fastest times around the bouys and back was having 2 girls in the boat.

Later when at the race, I found out that the 2 most popular combinations of crew are either 2 people in a light skinny kayak, or a big catamaran (two hull) with the max number of 10 crew. The 2 person crew can turn the corners sharp, but don't have the higher speed. The super boat with 10 crew is faster, but they can't turn the corners very well because of so much inertia.

I contacted the council and they registered a 2nd boat, so we will be racing 2 identical cardboard boats, each with 2 girls in them. Works out great, we have a total of 4 girls, so now everyone can run all of the races.

Turning around and changing places in the boat is part of the small boat patch, so they were doing a little extra work besides paddling practice.




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