RE: [Paddlewise] Double fatality, double kayaks, are you using sea socks???

From: Allan and Joyce Singleton <alsjfs_at_voyager.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:27:21 +1200
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From:  Rex Roberton
>  If you paddle a double in cold water, get sea socks.  Use them.
>  Do you have
>  friends that use a double?  See if you can talk them into
>  getting sea socks.
>
>
Don't you have bulkheads in your American doubles? Our Southern Light has
four bulkheads, two of which are pod type seats that cut down the cockpit
volume. There is a centre storage compartment as well as the normal fore and
aft ones.

When the kayak is righted after being upside down it has about four inches
of water in the cockpits, and is riding high, no worse than a single I would
think.

Paddling in cold water? Get wet (or dry) suits. Wear them.


Allan Singleton
Hamilton NZ

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