RE: [Paddlewise] Water Carrier

From: Alex Ferguson <a.ferguson_at_chem.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:14:08 +1200
>They
>seemed difficult to fit where I wanted them to go in a kayak. They always
>seamed to want to blob roll down to the middle

That's how I want them, in the middle, low down, under everything else.

>The cheapest ones are the two liter soda pop bottles

Yes but still don't squash down as well as they get emptied and then still 
take up more room when empty. Better for the non-alcoholic drinkers for 
emptying though!!

>The corners of these square
>type jugs (where they are thinner walled and fold into points) are very
>vulnerable to getting a pin hole leak worn into them.

Fortunately the one we had (8 litres) on a month long trip survived., 
carried it on deck with the 5 litres of kerosene

I have used the 3 litre bottles often and they are worse than the round 2 
litre ones in a single. Often carried 5 of the 3 litre across the mid-deck 
on the double held by a webbing strap. If we'd got in to difficulty any 
time it was only a moment to reach foreward, unsnap the buckle and drop the 
load.

Alex
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