[Paddlewise] sectional kayaks

This is a post about the sectional hull thread.

A friend that saw the Easter Island Circumnavigation 
presentation given by Stan Chladek and Nigel Dennis at 
Canoeacopia clarified what happened to their 
sectionalized sea kayaks during the trip. 
Nigel said that their boats started coming loose in 
horrendous seas because they forgot to put locktite on 
the bolts and nuts used to connect the kayak sections to 
one another. Once they applied the locktite they had no 
problems with the sectionalized hulls.

When I put my sectionalized Aleut Sea II together I use 
lock nuts and I have had no problems. You must be sure 
that you tighten the bolts and nuts completely.

Good Paddling,
Don Dimond 
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