At 08:30 AM 06/09/2000 -0400, John Fereira wrote: >... box wine bags ... Another inexpensive (free) floatation device is the packing material used in the computer industry. The closed cell foam material used in packing large monitors is great. (Not the horrid styrofoam-like stuff. That is an environmental nightmare and isn't stable.) I've cut and shaped this stuff to be additional floation in my canoe; carved small wedges to act as floats for pumps, gear bags, VHF radio, etc.; made an angled platform to put things at a good reading angle; even a cheap float for a polypro line that I sometimes carry (in addition to a real throw bag). The mix of ultra low tech white, pink and blue packing material, constrasted with high tech junk like the VHF or GPS proves a good conversation piece, too. jerry. *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Jun 09 2000 - 09:39:12 PDT
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