Wow! This is pretty creative. But it does not sound at all like the way I did it when I was experimenting with these things. My approach is less "interesting": The sponsons are clipped in place prior to inflating them. First you clip in a sponson on one side, then, while holding the sponson that is not yet clipped into place, you rotate the boat along its axis such that the boat wraps around the sponsons (the straps passing across the bottom of the boat). This leaves you with the unclipped sponson and the corresponding clips on your side of the boat. You clip the remaining sponson into place, and inflate both sides (using the long inflation tubes). ------------ Weeeeeell, I suppooooose that miiiiight work. ------------ There is no mystery to getting the straps connected to the right clips. The key is color coding. If you can match up colors, then it is a trivial matter to get them hooked in correctly the first time, and you will not have to "unhook the clips and start all over." The clips are all the same color when they come from the manufacturer, but this is easily remedied. :-) ------------ Now how would the mechanically challenged go about solving that problem? Hmmmm, I got this really ugly tie with some really wierd colors for Xmas. I could cut that up in teeny little strips and tie them to the straps and buckles. Uh oh! If she's a closet paddler and lurks on Paddlewise I'd be in deep doggie doo! I think I better come up with another plan and leave the ugly tie alone. :-( *************************************************************************** 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 Feb 23 1999 - 12:22:26 PST
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