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

From: Alex Ferguson <a.ferguson_at_chem.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:55:21 +1200
Allan (et al)

> >  From:  Rex Roberton
> >  If you paddle a double in cold water, get sea socks.  Use them.

Allan wrote -
>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.

Haven't you seen North American kayaks? Bulkheads fitted as far away from 
the cockpit rim as possible to give as much cockpit flooded volume as 
possible. If the Seayak is representitive of European kayaks then they are 
no better.

I think there are some Australian kayaks using minimal cockpit volumes the 
same as NZ ones.

Alex
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Alex (Sandy) Ferguson
Chemistry Department
University of Canterbury
New Zealand

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