Hi all Just been reading through some recent digests. The thread about lightweight boats, and not having hatches to save weight was a bit of a giggle. Reminded me of cycling, a bit. Weight is really crucial to speed, acceleration, climbing ability on a bike. I love light bikes. However I wouldn't spend 1000 big ones to drop a couple of pounds from a bike, and funnily most (ignore racers and obsessed triathletes) cyclists with super light bikes that I know could save WAY more weight by not spending money on donuts and beer :-). DOH! So back to kayaks. All those folks who are worried about 5lbs on their hull, how much extra weight ya carrying around the middle :-). While your thinking about that, and taking care not to sit on your bendy deck, your not really going to put 60lbs of clothes, tents, cookers, food, bottles of cloudy bay SB etc etc in there are you ? He he. Thanks for a great thread. Made me giggle anyway. Cheers Colin Calder 57º19'N 2º10'W Ps for those of you who don't know, VCP hatches don't leak. *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Oct 13 1998 - 04:54:20 PDT
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