Matt Broze wrote: > > By the way Sid, I almost never use an all neoprene spraydeck except in a > river kayak or when surfing. Too hot and they tend to limit rotation at the > waist. I wondered when someone was going to mention this. How can many of you stand to be in a kayak with an all-neoprene skirt when you are touring during the summer? With a seasock and warm paddling clothes, during the summer I often try to paddle without a sprayskirt at all. When I was paddling with my family at age 14, I thought the main point of a sprayskirt was to keep water from dripping on your crotch. Although a neoprene skirt is "tighter" I wonder why a nylon skirt couldn't be just as tightly attached to the coaming in some way and drown people. Couldn't someone invent a sprayskirt release from inside that can be used or triggered with the knees? Maybe a plastic bar, like an implosion bar, that loosens a cleat to release the coaming cord. It can't be made complicated, otherwise it wouldn't work well. Of course, if you can operate the trigger, my guess is you can operate a strap, though if you panic, the deck might unlock more automatically. > "common knowledge". From the dismissive tone of your post I'm going to guess > you are mostly a WW paddler doing a little "slumming " on this list and are > under 40. 23 here. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Mar 09 2001 - 16:29:21 PST
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