Jeff, I too paddle a British designed boat, mine is a CD Gulfstream. The boat came from the factory with holes drilled in all of the bulkheads. The holes are about 2/3 of the way up from the bottom of the bulkhead and are about 1/16". I normally have absolutely no leakage into the dry compartments. Occasionally on a "wet play day", where we are doing numerous rescues, wet exits, etc I'll pick up a couple of teaspoons to several oz of water in my day hatch and front hatch. The rear hatch stays dry because the day hatch is still pretty much dry and there isn't much water to transfer around. Otherwise, the boat stays completely dry. Steve Holtzman Southern CA. *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Jul 20 2003 - 15:10:28 PDT
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