> >the thought of drilling in a new boat is also more than I can stand. It's > >only surpassed by the thought of drilling in an old boat. > > > Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and do it. Bear in mind, these > boats are tools. When I built my stripper, it pained me greatly to cut the hatches in that beautiful wood. It pained me again when I had to drill all the holes for the bungie padeyes. The greatest pain was when I realized I had drilled one hole too many. By the time I got to drilling the holes for my compass, I was numb. No pain at all 8^) Most of the permanent compasses need a flat area to mount on, so you may need to do more than just drill holes. On my kayak I made a round mount and taped 60 grit sandpaper to the deck in the area I wanted to mount it. Then I sanded the mount against it until it fit the curve of the deck. It all blends well on my wood kayak, but I do have to take care not to bang it against anything. The compass itself can be popped off if I need to. http://www.tidalwave.net/~woodardr/scanned/kroll2-19.jpg http://www.tidalwave.net/~woodardr/scanned/kroll2-18.jpg (Not so very good pictures of the mount...) If I had it to do all over again, I would have bought one of the Ritchie compass' that have a little wire that can be connected to a battery for night time navigation *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Apr 02 1999 - 17:45:21 PST
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