Re: [Paddlewise] Pumps,pumps,pumps & What about Sponsoons?

Bob:
Some of the British boats like P&H (Derek Hutchinsons company) provide 
pumps as an option.  You might wish to check out their web site for some 
ideas with your boat.
  http://www.phseakayaks.com/

Additionally, to address the issue with regards to hands free to pump.  I 
have used sponsons on my boat to stabilize it to fish from and have 
practiced self rescues with them.  I still wouldn't leave the dock without 
my paddle float (did once to go fishing and blew a hole in the right 
sponsoon resulting in a dip in the cold water and about twenty minutes to 
get back in the boat.  Not good!).  Just a thought.  I would like to know 
what the more experienced paddlers on this page think of the use of sponsoons.

Thanks
Fred
Ca kayaker

At 09:25 PM 1/23/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Watching with interest and confusion this discussion of pumps, foot,
>electric and otherwise.
>
>The only thing I've seen around here (SF Bay) is the hand-held variety,
>which appears to be the worst of all possible options.  Remove the skirt and
>occupy both hands, it makes no sense.  It would seem to be seeking to turn
>mishap into disaster.  One would think that with the distinct possibility of
>a kayak being filled with water frome time to time, makers would include
>various pumping systems as options.  Not so.  It seems to me they would sell
>easily but noooooooo, they have air-brushed pictures of dolphins, a
>kazillion color choices, "day-hatches" and other nonsense to make them more
>attractive.  Go figure.
>
>I'm finally breaking down and getting a "real" kayak soon and tops on my
>list is installing some method of getting the water on the outside, where it
>belongs.  I'd prefer not to chop any more holes in it than necessary
>(although I do get a "rush" everytime I take a drill and saw to a boat).
>
>Since none, zip, zero, nada  of the kayak makers I've been considering offer
>any sort of options regarding installed pumps of any sort, I assume they are
>an after-market item.  Can anyone direct me to a URL where such items are
>sold?  What I'd really like to do is buy the whole shebang as one kit,
>rather than piecing together some Rube Goldberg contraption that will fail
>at the worst possible time.
>
>
>Bob
>
>
>***************************************************************************
>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/
>***************************************************************************

***************************************************************************
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/
***************************************************************************