>"Filling a compartment with water to test leakage bears little similarity to >actual use. A good hatch should be designed to keep water out, but not >necessarily to keep water in." > >True, but as a practical test, filling with water is easy to do. >Regards, >Peter Treby >37* 42' S 145* 08' E Just our luck they would Rate them like they do GPS's ( water proof if you don't put it in the water) which would still do us no good. Dana *************************************************************************** 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 Aug 14 2000 - 11:25:48 PDT
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