>A bonus is the left over material for a Gore-tex cockpit cover. > I can keep >the night-time critters out of my boat at my campsite while letting the >moisture out at the same time. Good looking covers aside, is Gore-Tex really going to work for this application? My impression was that it took a certain degree of vapor pressure inside to force the moisture out. This works in a close fitting situation like a jacket where you have heated vapor that builds a pressure on the inside. But in the large expanse of the kayak, filled with chilled air (both from radiant heat loss with the absence of a body in the interior and the evaporative effect), I would have thought that the net vapor transfer would be pretty much zero. *************************************************************************** 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 Sep 10 2002 - 10:58:44 PDT
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