Following the departing cockpit cover thread, try the Palm neoprene cockpit cover. A little pricier than others, but it's tight, solid and crosswind proof. (Also not that easy to get the bloody thing on, but when it's on, it stays on!) Also stays tight as a drum, and keeps virutally all the water out of a boat in heavy rains. Caution note: in very heavy or sustained rains, you can pick up enough rainwater in a cockpit to collapse your rack --- not to get back on that subject! --- and even your roof. Only saw it happen once, but two large cockpit sea kayaks on top of (I think it was a) Toyota Corolla managed to buckle the roof columns. With lesser amounts of water, you can develop hydraulic rams which, when the car stops quickly, can blow out your forward bulkhead --- or, in non-bulkheaded boats, the bow! So cockpit covers are not just for fuel economy or to keep the critters out. Jack Martin *************************************************************************** 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 Dec 01 1998 - 03:53:07 PST
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