Allison, Bad floatation bag designs are a plague in sea kayaking. Most designs are made for river kayaks and canoes, and the few float bags made for sea kayaks are very small and designed to fill the small space at the tip of the bow and stern bulkheads. I use canoe flotation bags; they are the only ones 60 inches long which are acceptable for kayaks without bulkheads. The problem, as you describe, is that the inflating tube is too small. The solution is to get 2 feet of vynil tube at your hardware store, cut the floatbag tube in half and insert the halves in the vynil tube. Glue the junctions with aquaseal or goop. ------------------- tip ======= ============| float bag ------------------- tranparent vynil tube I hope the helps, - Julio *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Jun 03 1999 - 12:07:48 PDT
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