On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Peter Joachim Unold wrote: > Has any of you experimented with (elvstrom-)-bailers in the bottom of > your kayaks? I've been asking various sailors, if they thought it would > work for kayaks and I've been getting very mixed answers. Some says > that I wouldn't be able to sail sufficiently fast for the bailer to work, > whereas other claims that it also works for low speed. I've got self bailers in a couple of my racing canoes. They are basically a stainless steel trapdoor that drops down through the hull. When it's not open it's flush with the hull, to deploy it you push down on it, the lead edge is hinged, the sides are closed and the back of the bailer has a panel that gets "sucked" open when paddling forward. You don't have to go all that fast to get it to work. It works quite well and is easy to open and close, in a canoe. From a kayak there is that pesky spray skirt in the way. kirk *************************************************************************** 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 20 1998 - 11:05:35 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:30:00 PDT