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| - | ==== Steering Malfunction... ==== | ||
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| - | **Re: V 10 Anyone????\\ | ||
| - | Larry Goolsby** \\ | ||
| - | 02/13/08 #4111 | ||
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| - | On Sunday, 4 of us left Marine Park for a trip down to Govornor's.\\ | ||
| - | There was a S wind and a WSW swell coming in making the wall quite\\ | ||
| - | challenging. At Clarke's Point, Brian B. spotted a dark ominous cloud\\ | ||
| - | headed our way and said "nice knowin' you guys" and headed back to\\ | ||
| - | his truck. The other 3 idiots continued on to Govornor's. Upon\\ | ||
| - | reaching Govornor's, we peeked around the rock to see a monster (big\\ | ||
| - | black storm) and made a unanimous decision to head north and do a\\ | ||
| - | downwind run. The rides were great but the monster caught us before\\ | ||
| - | we could get past the island. Dean made the comment "I don't think\\ | ||
| - | that it can rain any harder than this", and it did. The waves (not\\ | ||
| - | big but fun) were driving us towards Clarke's wall and just as we\\ | ||
| - | neared the point, one of the boats suffered steering failure. I won't\\ | ||
| - | name the boat to protect the manufacturer (4 letter word that isn't H-\\ | ||
| - | U-K-I). Luckily, Dean happened to have a small section of inner tube\\ | ||
| - | tied in a tight knot on his rear bungee. So all 3 boats went side to\\ | ||
| - | side in the slop coming off the wall as Dean hung onto Mike's boat\\ | ||
| - | and I hung onto Dean's. Dean couldn't reach the piece of inner tube\\ | ||
| - | to untie it so I un-did the knot and passed it to Dean who then\\ | ||
| - | jambed it between the hull and rudder on the unnamed watercraft.\\ | ||
| - | There really needed to be 3 boats to pull this off in the chop since\\ | ||
| - | we were able to stabilize each other. Dean wouldn't have been able to\\ | ||
| - | reach under Mike's boat without Mike and I holding his boat. With the\\ | ||
| - | rudder in a locked position, it was still hard to manuver the mystery\\ | ||
| - | boat in those mixed up waters and it took us an hour to travel the\\ | ||
| - | 2.5 miles back to the park. Mike still broached on several occasions\\ | ||
| - | and went in swimming once just to rinse that pesky fresh water off\\ | ||
| - | his hide from the rain. Conditions were mostly calm when we had left\\ | ||
| - | the park and did pick up once we hit the water. It was close to 44 F\\ | ||
| - | so I didn't wear my drysuit and the heavy rain made it feel like it\\ | ||
| - | was 34 F. It was the a combo of heavy rain, wind, and dropping our\\ | ||
| - | feet in the water frequently that made Dean and I chilled. Mike did 1\\ | ||
| - | or 2 huli's on top of this and he was probably the most chilled. Dean\\ | ||
| - | and I stayed warmer than Mike because we were able to paddle at a\\ | ||
| - | higher cadence. Mike's cadence was hampered with the fact that his\\ | ||
| - | paddle was also his rudder.\\ | ||
| - | That's my story and I'm sticking to it.\\ | ||
| - | LG | ||
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| - | **Re: V 10 steering problems\\ | ||
| - | doncraigdesign** \\ | ||
| - | 02/13/08 #4116 | ||
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| - | So Larry G., what would you say went wrong with the unnamed ski's steering this time? Was it a broken string or some other hardware problem? | ||
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| - | Enquiring H-ski paddlers would like to know. | ||
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| - | Cheers,\\ | ||
| - | Don | ||
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| - | **Re: V 10 steering problems\\ | ||
| - | Larry Goolsby** \\ | ||
| - | 02/13/08 #4117 | ||
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| - | Aauuggghhh. I'm not touching that one. Didn't see what happened and had\\ | ||
| - | no desire to ask. (I'm bettin'it was hardware but you didn't hear that\\ | ||
| - | from me).\\ | ||
| - | LG | ||
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| - | **Re: V 10 steering problems\\ | ||
| - | Dean Bumstead** \\ | ||
| - | 02/13/08 #4119 | ||
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| - | It was a loose nut, and not the one paddling - Dean | ||
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