Re: [Paddlewise] Towing kayaks behind motor boat

From: Steve Cramer <cramersec_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 8:55:1 -0500
=== At 2002-07-12, 06:30:00 Tom LeTourneau wrote: =======
>Two friends and I are planning a one-way paddle to NH seacoast's Isle of 
>Shoals. ...So we plan 
>to leave early in the morning, and have a motor boat carry our kayaks back 
>to the coast. ...
> I hesitate to ask the 
>skipper of a pleasure craft to tie three kayaks atop and perpendicular on 
>his stern. Total weight would only be 150 pounds, but the kayaks are 14 to 
>17 feet in length.

We tore 3 holes in the bottom of a 14' Folboat paddling through old stumps in the Santee Cooper Lakes once. Sunk it right to the bottom, which was fortunately only 2 feet down. We were rescued by a duck hunter in a 12' jon boat, who carried us a couple of miles back to the landing with the Folboat sitting perpendicular across his gunwales. Seems like a 25' Grady White could do at least as well.
		 
Steve Cramer
cramersec_at_earthlink.net
2002-07-12



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