Originally Posted by
ozscott
YES!!!!!
So true. Picture pushing a light 1.5 foot high log along the beach - not much fun cause it has the sand wedge all down its length and you are attempting to overcome that wedge and doing so with an acute attack angle to the sand flat just ahead of the wedge of sand. Now picture the log cut into a slice 4 inches wide but also taller and with greater diameter - picture how small the wedge now is to overcome and that the approach angle of the wood is now shallower with much better change of overcoming the wedge. Its an extreme example, but beyond doubt now that length is what you are after on the beach more so than width.
Cheers