Jim, After reading the exchange on knives I came to a similar conclusion and also considered getting a Gerber River Shorty. When I went to a local paddling shop to find one, the sales person told me that a number of customers had returned them (or complained that they had lost the knife) because it did not stay securely in its sheath. I kept looking and found an excellent small dive knife from Kershaw. It has a 4 inch blade, standard edge on one side, serrated on the other with a line cutting notch near the hilt, square tip. It has a dayglo yellow plastic handle with a rubber grip section. The handle clips securely into the plastic sheath and releases by pressing a large button on the front of the sheath. They also sell replacement blades so you can convert it to other blade configurations. It is a little more expensive than the Gerber but worth the few bucks. Larry Pfisterer *************************************************************************** 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 Fri May 29 1998 - 22:34:05 PDT
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