Greenlander in more wind. (continued 4)

Yesterday, on Wednesday-evening, I paddled the Greenlander from home to the club in a 5 Bft wind including a longer course on the Alkmaardermeer.

Until now I paddled her in less or no wind. But now it was becoming more serious and I think it gave me much more confidence for using her at sea later.

Until now I did not yet work on the customising of the cockpit, except that I removed the knee-tube which did not fit me at all and also made entering the cockpit a dangerous exercise for my knees.
Customising will be very important as the deck is quite high and gives no grip for my knees at all at the moment.
So, I was paddling in 5Bft with no hip-contact and no knee-contact with my knee-position in the middle of the cockpit.

Nevertheless I was very happy as the Greenlander could be steered perfectly with hip-movements. Stability was also good under the conditions with waves up to 40cm. Which is quite good, taking into account that I had no contact in the cockpit at all.
The only moment a missed knee-contact was when steering around a little headland away from the wind, where edging was necessary to turn the kayak more professionally.

While running for the wind and waves, with the skeg down , the Greenlander behaved quite course-stable.

The Greenlander weathercocks a little bit, but this was perfectly trimmed with the variable skeg.

Paddling against the waves made a wet ride is the bow splices the waves. Comparing with the Explorer, paddling next to me, learned me that the Explorer had a complete dry ride under these conditions.