RE: [Paddlewise] VCP Hatch Deterioration - correction

From: Bob Denton <BDenton_at_aquagulf.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:21:26 -0400
"We are not amused!" 

Having owned boats with strap on hatches I would never own another boat
without a  VCP hatch. My boat is always bone dry and the convenience of
opening and closing a hatch in seconds is worth and minor problems with the
materials. Based on our member from the UK, the problem isn't the hatch,
it's the replacement cost. In the UK it's a fraction of the US price.

cu

> 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

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