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Downwind and Racing / Re: Racing Hull Shape, Swede form -vs- Fish form

« on: August 14, 2011, 06:36:46 PM »

I'm a racer and race kayaks. The reason why racing hulls are Swede form is to make the hull narrowest at the front so the catch of the paddle can be closest to the centerline of the hull. So it has less to do with the shape of the hull going through the water than it does about paddle catch. A swede form actually prefers to move through fluid space by turning around and being as fish form. To clarify, a fish form and a swede form are the same shape and that shape prefers, due to natural laws of physics and fluid dynamics, to travel in the fish form direction, hence the natural seletion form of, well, fish! Like a weather vane or a dart, the shape forward or backwards in space is the same but naturally it wants to turn into the wind... All major aircraft fuelages are fish form for instance...