Kirk wrote; (SNIP of Clyde's comments and questions) > > >My thought was that instead of having an air filled sponson on each >side of the boat utilize something similar to the water pockets on >the bottom of a rescue raft. My initial thought was to build a pair >of "water pockets", along the lines of a 3 foot long funnel, with a wide >top and a narrow lower end, then add a few weights to the narrow end >so that the "water pocket" hung vertically in the water. Then I thought >this would work better if the water pockets could be deployed a couple >feet from the boat - hence the 6 foot pole. > >So instead of having sponsons adjacent to the boat resisting a tip over >by way of an air bladder, a tip over would be resisted by the weight >of the water in the "water pockets" deployed parallel to the boat. > I have not heard back from the Givens life raft people. Their web site is worth looking at. I really like the concept and think it would work but have not seen one of their rafts in action. Time to bug them again for response I guess. Cheers, John Winters Redwing Designs Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft http://home.ican.net/~735769/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Apr 01 1998 - 05:23:40 PST
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