One of the problems for me with excessively tight spray decks that they seem to leave a rather large gap for water to get in, and without enough tension from the front will implode with a large spillover. Can you'all see any problem with adding a hook onto the pump shaft to hook the front end of the spray deck onto? Not that this is a problem on my boat with a deck pump. JCMARTIN43_at_aol.com wrote: > > Just a thought, after watching two very skilled, competent sea kayakers fail > to be able to pump out after being swamped in some three foot chop on an > eight mile open crossing, one with a blown nylon sprayskirt and the other > with an opened-at-the-wrong-time neo skirt: if you're considering the > handpump as your primary seawater elimination tool, try it in nasty > conditions but with some controls before you're caught in them for real > without support. The idea of being able to enter a partially or completely > swamped cockpit --- and this is assuming that the bulkheads are sound and the > compartments don't start to flood --- and stabilize yourself in order to pump > out your boat may not be realistic in lumpy seas. It is not easy. Even if > you can brace adequately with your knees somehow gripping your pump so that > one hand can control a two-bladed paddle in lumpies and one hand can pull > that pump bail straight up continuously, you'll be hard pressed to keep as > much water out as you're pumping out. > > Some people can make this work. Says so in a lot of the books. I just don't > know any of them. > > Jack Martin -- ¤ Gabriel L Romeu ¤ http://studiofurniture.com + /diary or + /paint *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Jun 20 2001 - 17:45:39 PDT
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