At Tuesday, 5 February 2002, "Craig MacKinnon" <elroca_at_earthlink. net> wrote: >That looks a lot like what I've been looking for. How detachable is it-->can it take a pounding? Also, does it interfere with rolling off or onto >the back deck? It is a pretty solid attachment. I've taken it off once in awhile, but it does take a few minutes. It isn't just a slip on slip off kind of thing. The side straps that hold in in to the PFD attach with these small plastic looking things to the side-cinches on the Lotus PFD. The top half of the EFT is held to the PFD with backpack- like straps. Imagine the shoulder straps on your PFD as your arms - they wrap around theose. The straps You could use it on a PFD without side-straps but it would not be as tight a fit. As I said before, it doesn't interfere with screw type rolls unless you stuff it full of things. All my boats tend to have fairly high back decks (Khatsalano, GTS) and I have never noticed it when sculling or rolling. It doesn't move at all on the PFD, but this may be because I also have a Lotus PFD. I keep it on my PFD even when it is empty for pool sessions of whatever. I really don't know it is there. I can't see it being any more distracting than the Palm-style back pocket. If having something on your back bugs you, this probably would too. I bought mine off-the-shelf so had a chance to look at it before buying it. If you are interested and don't have a Lotus PFD, I'd just send them an e-mail and see if they think the attachment would be as good with a diffrent brand. -Patrick *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Feb 05 2002 - 08:50:37 PST
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