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SunCatcher
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I was always ahead of the tandems.
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cowdoc
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......and the people in the tandems were thankful for that.
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ZaraSp00k
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totally depends on the paddlers ability and what you are paddling, once I was with a pair of aluminum, so it was pretty easy paddle for me. If the other paddlers are experienced and paddling decent boats, you could be the laggard, maybe a good idea to rotate paddlers
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shsylvester
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Duffing is the toughest paddling assignment there is. As the other say, however, it depends completely on the experience levels of the other paddlers. A decent solo paddler would have no trouble staying ahead of two inexperienced paddlers waterbugging across a lake, whether they're in a kevlar racer or a rubber dinghy.
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Woods Walker
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I have found that the tandems can't keep up with me, I can usually out distance them or easily keep pace... I do a sit & switch to pull away or just a j-stroke to keep pace.
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tonyyarusso
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Those of you who have taken a solo boat on a trip where the rest of your party was in tandems, how hard was it to keep up? Was it more enjoyable to put in extra work doing that than rotating a duffer?
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IBFLY
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+1 to shsylvester:
I always solo in a tandem. I often outpaddle 2 people in a tandem. I figure they're just taking their time.
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