> Robert, > > Thanks for your reply. > >> ... With your permission, I will post >> it to Paddlwise for all to read. > > Fine by me. Peter Carter wrote: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:59:33 +1030 To: "Robert C. Cline" <rccline_at_swbell.net> Subject: Re: Instability with a flooded cockpit. Robert, Thanks for your message. I'm not a subscriber to the PaddleWise list, so I haven't been following the thread. (And I gave up on the Wave~Length list ages ago, as the signal:noise ratio wasn't to my liking.) To respond... >I have been wondering what to do about this in my boat, a Romany Explorer. >The Romany has a bit of a flat bottom, and in rough water, with the cockpit >flooded, the sloshing motion becomes very unstablilizing. Do I reduce >cockpit volume? Add baffles? A sea sock? Or, trade it in on a Nordkapp >Jubilee? My method (as with my old Nordkapp) is to fit buoyancy material (I use expanded polyethylene) along the sides of the cockpit. Shape it to fit, and fix in place: I use studs through the hull. Pack some more beneath the seat, and fill any space fwd of the footrest. The space behind the seat can be taken up with a suitable bag, buoyancy material, or a third bulkhead. >... I was thinking about gluing something in >the floor of the cockpit to reduce the sloshing and further reduce the >cockpit volume. Doing that however would preclude being able to carry the >watertight zip-bag. Is there room beneath the deck, between the knees? This space can often be used for storage. (Voyager has a box, accessible through a hole in the deck.) >Carter also posits that the re-enter and roll is a necessary skill. Forget >Paddle floats Carter says. What about the situation when even with a >perfected re-enter and roll, there is an injury? Wouldn't you want a paddle >float alternative? When did the injury occur? If you're paddling with a known injury I think there's something amiss with your seamanship. If the injury was caused by capsize, collision, or whatever, you have a problem even with a paddle float. The downfall of the paddle float is that you've lost the use of your paddle: you're at mercy of wind, wave and current with no means of propulsion. >I don't know how ambitious an assignment it is to add the re-entry and roll >to the repertoire. I think Doug Lloyd posted about this issue some time >ago. Not difficult, but like everything else, needs current practice. Cheers, Peter pcarter_at_acslink.net.au allegedly <www.acslink.net.au/~pcarter> temporarily <usrwww.mpx.com.au/~pcarter> 34deg 55' 30" S 138deg 32' 4" E *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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