At 01:40 PM 4/20/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Several posts >in this thread have implied that a poly rec kayak will not sink. Since I have >no desire to gather any empirical evidence on my own, does anyone know for >sure? yup, i've successfully swamped and sunk (in 4 ft of water at a beach) a double (keowee II). i was trying to see if i could do a roll (HAHAHAHAHAhahahahah, the answer was 'no'), and practicing re-entries, and it filled up, and slowly drifted downward, at which point i dragged it the 10 feet to shore, flipped it, etc. i like those boats but think of them as big giant bath toys. kcd *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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