Tom, Hi. It was good meeting you over the weekend. A sea sock is like a large condom that you place around the coaming of your kayak and whose material forms a pocket or sock in which you sit. It extends well forward under the deck and should accomodate even the tallest paddler. Its purpose is to keep water from filling the cockpit. Also dirt. A sea sock works well for folding kayaks that, by their very nature, lack bulkheads. A sea sock limits the amount of water that needs to be pumped out in the event of a capsize and keeps sand and gravel from getting to the inside of the boat where it may rub at the deck and hull. Feathercraft provides sea socks with all their models as standard equipment. I never use one and therefore I did not have one on my boat when we were paddling at West Point. If I had, you would not have been asking this question. I don't use one because I like to get at gear inside the boat and the sea sock complicates such access. I am not sure you could get one to work well on your plastic kayak. The cockpit coaming is probably too rounded to be able to accept both a sea sock and your spray skirt. Fiberglass boats have sharper edged coamings and deeper grooves than do plastic boats and the combo of sea sock and skirt tends to stay on better in them. This is also true of the Feathercrafts folding kayaks all of which have fiberglass coamings absolutely like those on fiberglass boats with the exception of the inset groove to which part of the folding kayak skin goes. Several companies sell sea socks on the after market. SEDA comes immediately to mind but I am sure there are others. best, ralph Tom wrote: > > What is a sea sock? > > *************************************************************************** > 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/ > *************************************************************************** -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 May 31 2000 - 07:55:43 PDT
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