snips Tim wrote; > Loop the tube around a bungie so it > sticks up towards you, and you have "hands free" hydration. > > Tim, I'm trying to picture this, and the way my brain is operating today, all I can see is a scenario where I poke my eye out when a mishap occurs. Can you say a little more about how you rig the tube???? Incidentally, regarding the sun warming the water.... on day trips, I strap a hikers fanny pack to the deck rigging. It has a water bottle pocket on each side, with a pouch in the middle. I freeze 24 oz plastic gatorade bottles (3/4 of the bottle first, then the last 1/4 a few days later to prevent bursting the bottle) and can fit one in each pocket, and 3 in the pouch if I've got suntan lotion etc elsewhere. (My wife kicks me because I have about 30 frozen bottles in the freezer in the garage!!!) I'm in Virginia, on the Bay, so it gets into the high 90's with HUGE humidity for most of the summer, yet after 5-6 or more hours of paddling, I still have very cold water. Just drink it as it melts! I alternate bottles to keep the thawing water to a minimum because I "think" that bottles with thawed water are melting faster than bottles with little to no thawed water. Never tested it, but it makes sense to me. I started with fewer bottles, but discovered that the water wasn't thawing fast enough for me. Can't change chemistry (or whatever it is) but I can add more bottles, or stick one under the rigging without the insulation of the fanny pack to kept it cooler! I thought I'd have a problem with the bottles falling out of the side pockets, but it hasn't proven true yet. If they do, and I lose them, I wouldn't worry about it because it's just an empty plastic bottle from one of my kids soccer games. Now.... leaving trash in the Bay is a different issue altogether, but sometimes it can't be helped. If it wasn't "lost", I'd retreive it and take it home. Don't know if that's of any help to you, but it's a thought. Rick (the one from Virginia .... GO HOKIES!) *************************************************************************** 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 Sep 25 2000 - 12:54:58 PDT
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