Re: [Paddlewise] self-righting devices

At 10:12 PM 2/12/01 -0800, timbre_at_spiger.com wrote:

Here we go with another big guy/big gal issue: 

>in my situation:  i paddle a rec kayak with a huge cockpit, and can't get a 
>neoprene skirt for it.  (snapdragon won't make it....haven't asked 
>whetstone yet....but the size of the cockpit >would< make it hard to get on 

I have yet to buy a spray skirt that fits me without modification.

An interim solution would be a nylon skirt, which beats nothing. Perception
probably would have one, but it probably won't fit you -- but that's
nothing a good local canvas shop can't cure. Failing that, one from one of
the other big cockpit manufactuers, like maybe the Old Town Loon 138, might
work or be adaptable.

But on a cockpit as big as the America's, I wonder if you're going to have
implosion problems with either nylon or neoprene.

-- Wes
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