I was experimenting with ballast last year, and this is what I came up with. I filled a couple of liter-sized polycarbonate Nalgene bottles with lead shot (had a few bags on hand) and secured the lid with good quality electrical tape to gurantee against water coming in or the lid coming off. Then I wrapped the bottles with 2" wide velcro tape. The mating pieces of Velcro are used to tie the bottles in place to various frame members in my folding kayaks. If I was experimenting with a rigid boat, I'd use something flatter, like dive weights, and just glue strips of Velcro in different places in the boat. -- mike ----------------------------------- Michael Edelman medelman_at_ameritech.net http://www.foldingkayaks.org http://www.findascope.com *************************************************************************** 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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