Robert doesn't arrive till the 15th so I have had more time to throughly "break in" his boat. After reading all the discussion about cracked hatch covers I decided to give them a true test. I grabbed a couple seal bombs tossed them in the boat and quickly closed the covers. Wow, those suckers can really fly! The problem is they flew off into a Devil's club patch. (the ultimate briar patch for you non Alaskans) Luckily I know about where they landed and I shouldn't take Robert too long to find them. I have continued to practice seal landing which afterwhile got to be boring so I have improvised the technique with variations I call the "Walrus lunge", " the Seal flop" and "the Sea Lion crash and burn". What I have discovered is that not only do they not make boats like they used to but todays duct tape ain't so great either! It seems to take a lot of duct tape to hold a boat together these days. Finally I decided to really fix the boat. I got a couple gallons of resin and lots of fiberglass mat and went to work. I left all the duct tape on the boat hoping for a deep silver hue effect. I also decided to get rid of the sharp bow and keel. The boat kept getting caught in cracks on the rocks as I would try to slide back into the water. With lots of resin and mat I rounded the bow and keel real well. I also fiberglassed the skeg it the up position (makes the seal landings go smoother) Robert's boat is now a true battlecrusier only weighting 170 pounds! Bob Sitka *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
At 10:40 PM 8/8/00 -0800, Rev. Bob Carter wrote: > Robert doesn't arrive till the 15th so I have had more time to throughly >"break in" his boat. > > Robert's boat is now a true battlecrusier only weighting 170 pounds! > > >Bob > > >Sitka on a earlier post you tslked about a polar bear, is Roberts kayak polar bear proof? maybe you ought to find out 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/ ***************************************************************************
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