rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com wrote: > Just one other difference that I would like to add. The coamings on > poly boats are not as sharp as those on laminated kayaks. Therefore > they don't hold a sprayskirt as well. > There are spray skirts designed just for plastic boats that would be ripped up by a fiberglass coaming. The Perception skirt for my Pirouette holds tight as a drum - better than the one for my fg sea kayak. The WW skirt has a heavy rubber rand around the edge and a thick wedge-shaped rubber rim on the bottom that fits the plastic coaming snugly. It is true that if you use a regular neoprene-to-the-edge style skirt on the plastic boat it will tend to slip off. I use the SK skirt on my Pirouette in the pool (since it's beat up and I don't worry about the effects of the chlorine*) and it slips and leaks somewhat more than I like. It works fine on the SK, however. So choose the skirt to match the boat. Mike *actually - it's a way of getting to buy a spiffy new SK skirt... not working though :-( *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jun 22 1999 - 18:01:49 PDT
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