[Responding to issues Ralph D. has not already touched on. JDK] Phlopz_at_aol.com wrote [heavily snipped]: > My experience: > It sags and clings clammily to your legs. Not mine. I did fit a foam bulkhead so it is a barrier between me and the clammy suck -- and that works well. I wear neoprene most of the time, anyway, so I'm **always** clammy ... or crabby ... or floundering. And, sometimes I even smelt! > It scrunches up and is hard to get into. Not here -- I burp it and climbing in/out is easy. > The coating wears off in a few minutes of use --allowing water to pass > through into the boat. Agreed. The brand Pygmy sells is plain old coated nylon, and the urethane coating degrades **quickly,** even where it is a double layer. What the hell does Feathercraft use that is so much better, Ralph? > There is enough flow resistance to keep the water in the boat from coming > back through the sea suck to be pumped out of the cockpit. You must mean through the (now uncoated) nylon. The fix is to get a better sea suck (as you say), or forget using one. My sea suck is made of the same stuff as yours, and I only end up with a few cups of water on the wrong side, so I don't sweat it until I unload the yak. BTW, Bob, what do you use for a flotation system, if you do not use the sea suck, and how do you **anchor** the flotation so it will not leave during a rough capsize? -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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 - 18:49:21 PDT
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