Adventurous Spirit wrote: > > Indeed, the sling around the coaming is quicker and easier, but just for > the record it is a risky manouver with anything other than a plastic boat. > You could pull the coaming right off boats made of other materials. Huh? I have a hard time understanding how a sling used to assist a person to re-enter a cockpit could exert much force on the coaming. I've used the sling on a wide variety of yaks, and never encountered any degradation of the coaming/deck joint. OTOH, I have separated one coaming/deck joint by too-aggressively levering my body out of the boat using teh coaming as a push point. Partly my fault and partly the mfr's fault. I should not have been so much of an ape. The mfr should not have used a rigid (epoxy and phenolic microballoons?) filler/adhesive to attack coaming and deck. Just curious: Matt Broze: what adhesive do you use on the coaming'deck joint on Mariners? -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jun 30 1999 - 23:26:30 PDT
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