For today I asked Tiny to shoot pictures when rolling the Silhouette. I did let go two invitations for a paddle tour and for paddling in surf. But the weather was perfect for making pictures. Yeah, sometime you have to make choices.
The wind was blowing at 5 or 6 bft. and gave some additional information when paddling to our exercise spot. Because I was paddling in shallow water there were no significant waves and now the Silhouette started to weathercock a bit. But she was easy to correct. Tiny, paddling an AnasAcuta, did have much more weathercocking and used the skeg.
So I think the conclusion might be that the Silhouette weathercocks only slightly and can be easily controlled with paddlestrokes. Using the skeg will make correction even easier. When paddling in waves at sea the waves influence the weathercock-behaviour in a way that the balance between weather- and leecocking will move and change the performance of the Silhouette to a neutral behaviour or in strong winds into leecocking.
About the wet exercises I can not add much text, as I described this already after the swimming pool exercises.
I rolled coming up on the afterdeck
as well as bent forward.
I sculled
I did re-entries:
And do you know what was so very pleasant: I could roll and roll for ever without getting cold in my drysuit.