Re: [Paddlewise] Your expertise needed again

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Daly <michaeldaly_at_home.com>
Cc: Paddlewise <paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Your expertise needed again


>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 :-(

WARNING! USING A SPRAYDECK THAT IS DESIGNED FOR A PLASTIC KAYAK ON A
FIBERGLASS COAMING COULD TRAP YOU IN THE KAYAK. BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL TO TEST
REVOVING THE SPRAYDECK WITH THIS COMBINATION BEFORE PADDLING WITH IT!
MATT BROZE

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