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wrote:
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 00:16:30 GMT, "Kenneth McClelland"
wrote:

I was in a different boat than what I was used to and I was having a like
problem. The reason was that I was tense and was inadvertently pushing one
knee up hard and it was throwing my whole balance out. After I stopped
fighting with the boat and relaxed all was well. The people I was paddling
with said that the boat looked mostly level but I think it was edging up
with each stroke.

Also can happen if she's weighting the wrong foot on the stroke.

How do you figure that? Being essentially a rigid structure, the boat
won't respond any differently to pressure on one foot pedal than the
other. Except when used to control a rudder, all the foot pedals do is
provide support so the paddler can resist the force of the paddle
stroke. The commonly repeated notion that one can steer a kayak by
pushing on the foot pedals is nonsense. Steering is controlled by the
paddle strokes and/or edging/leaning.