KiAyker_at_aol.com wrote: > > Perhaps the answer to making ourselves more visible would be to raise the > height of our boats. We could raise the decks, and make the boat a bit wider > to compensate. Then, since we couldn't really reach the water with our paddles > we could just cover up the cockpit and add a motor. Then we could build on a > little cabin with all the electronics imaginable so we would not only be > visible, but we would never get lost. In fact if we built it just a little bit > larger then we could take the whole family with us! Perhaps add a bathroom and > a kitchen! Yeah baby, now that's kayaking. Hmmm. Raise the deck, widen the boat, add a motor, a cabin, kitchen. Sounds like you just re-invented the folding double kayak! No kidding. I know people who attach a motor to their double folders; either electric or gasoline. Another guy who cooked in his Klepper with an old Svea, which he primed by setting the stove on fire...I haven't seen him in a while. I wrote of another fellow who took a tent, cut out the floor and rigged it to fit over the cockpit of a double Klepper; something he needed to do because of a camping trip along marshy wet banks with no dry ground for setting up a tent. Bathroom? Will a pee bottle do? ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Feb 07 1999 - 20:03:01 PST
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