As to Craig Olsen's assertion that wood and water ballast *will* affect boat buoyancy, we are talking about different things. I am concerned about buoyancy when swamped. If you add lead ballast to your kayak and it fills with water, it could sink, whereas before the lead was added it might float -- unless you provided additional floatation. If you add water or wood ballast, then you don't have to increase floatation because both are neutral or buoyant in a swamped boat. For example, if you added 64 lbs of lead to a boat, you would need to add a 1 cu. ft. air bag to float that lead it if you swamped. It is just simpler to forget the lead and instead add a 1 cu. ft. water bag to get the same 64 lbs. of ballast. Ken Cooperstein *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Feb 13 1998 - 07:59:31 PST
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