SRI wrote: > All this talk about VCP deterioration has been somewhat amusing to me > (sorry, folks -- but it has been). My CD Caribou has, IMO, the best hatch > system of all the kayaks I have seen. Despite repeated dunkings, flips, > etc., over the last few weeks -- very little water entered the hatches. > Very little. And it won't deteriorate. Ever. > <G> > Mark Hi Mark. You do store your Caribou with the hatches open as the manufacturer recommends, right? I actually did read the manual when I got my Caribou and it warns that the gasket can take a set if stored under compression for long periods. I always hang my boat upside down with the buckles loose so the hatch hangs on the straps. I have never had my hatches leak a drop, including when doing rolling sessions coming out of ten degree outside weather into a heated pool. Mike P.S. Be careful using that "not ever" phrase, it usually comes back to bite its owner. :-) -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jul 31 2000 - 11:10:50 PDT
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