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Old 10-12-2013, 17:52   #16
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Re: 'Puddle Jump' back to Americas?

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Reduced drag.
How much is the reduction in drag when compared with a skeg hung rudder..?? just wundring....
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Old 10-12-2013, 17:55   #17
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If your boat pounds going to weather, you are sailing it wrong...
Also a big difference in going to windward in coastal waters with a short steep sea and doing it in the open ocean with a nice mature sea and swell.
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Old 10-12-2013, 19:18   #18
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Re: 'Puddle Jump' back to Americas?

We met the owner of another Pretorien who had sailed back from French Polynesia to Mexico but I cannot remember the boat name. We met half of the couple who did it in La Paz.
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