Patrick Maun wrote: > Hey all, > > I am re-rigging my boat and would like some advice on dealing with a > spare paddle. While I love many things about my Current Designs GTS, > I really hate that annoying back hatch. Sure it's big, but it gets in > the way and makes carrying a stable spare paddle a hassle. Who has > come up with some good bungie rigging solutions for carrying a > mid-sized paddle (in my case, a Swift)? I'd like to keep things low > and secure. I've got a GT. I made a short bungie with nylon hooks that I use for the spare paddle tiedown. I used to lie the paddles on the rear deck, blades aft & under the existing bungie. I'd loop my homemade bungie around the shafts and hook onto the life lines (which on my kayak come all the way up to the front of the hatch - non standard). I would then push the shafts outboard of the hatch cover so they'd lie flat on the fiberglass deck. Then I switched to having the blades over the rear hatch. I didn't like either after practicing retrieving a half paddle upside down and rolling. They are too hard to unhitch. So I switched to the fore deck. The short bungie is hooked near the padeyes forward of the hatch and the blade ends are under the forward-most bungie. Now I can retrieve the paddle more easily. Esthetics suffer, I get a tad more spray but I can live with that. Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jul 06 2000 - 18:03:22 PDT
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