I'm curious > about how many Paddlewiser's either need to or already have customized their > cockpits for a good snug fit. a good source of constant fiddling and adjustment for me (there's always a reason for time fiddling with boats in the shed!) - especally in improving the footrests set up. I've got an RM skerray and I think VCP shuld be rapped over the knuckles for their poor (uncomfortable, insecure, too small) footrests in the otherwise nice skerray. I've got a false bulkhead/footrest now (thin plywood on layers of rigid builder's insualting foam), adjusted so i'm nice and snug lengthwise without being too uncomfortable - some adjustment possible using the back band. I've have made foam knee pads and braces, Also have put a layer of thin closed cell foam around the hip pads on the seat - took the sea tout, taped the foam on around the edges of the hip pads with duct tape and jammed them back in with the seat so its all neat. VCP seat owners should know what I mean. on this topic I now have some really nice self-adhesive thin foam for this sort of job from Knoydart in the UK - quite cheap too as far as foam goes, which i my experience is quite costly for the sort of stuff we want. I also got some good knee braces of a design i have found very good yet very simple. I bought one and have used this a template for others - cutting foam from old body boards to shape with a jigsaw. They also shaped a piece of foam to fit in the rounded front bulkhead of the skerray - this acts as base for my false bulkhead/footrest. I had tried various means to produce such as base with some success, however Knoydart's bit of shaped foam is perfect and no fuss, I just coughed up and it arrived. Excellent stuff http://www.knoydart-kayaking.co.uk/index.htm nick *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jan 12 2000 - 14:20:44 PST
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