"Just place the free blade under the cockpit thigh brace and hold it with your leg, while pumping." Rafael, doesn't this mean that the spray skirt is not attached? If so, there is a risk of taking a wave on board and flooding again as you pump. So perhaps this jam-under-the-thigh-brace outrigger is useful to get rid of a bit of water quickly, while stabilised with the outrigger, then paddle away and finish the job with a foot pump. I will try it next opportunity. "would love to use Pete´s approach if I could get a hold of a foot pump or electric pump." I'm sure the ingredients would be available for both. Rule electric pumps originate in the U.S.A. They would probably be available from a mail order marine supplier. Get the 500 gpm model. The 2 to 4 amp hour gel cell batteries are used for security alarms and hospital equipment, and are available here from chain store electronic suppliers. Do you have Tandy Electronics in Mexico? A waterproof switch comes from the marine suipplier. Or if you want a really slick switch, the best I've seen, check out http://www.nswseakayaker.asn.au/, search for Issue 49 of the newsletter, and look under "recessed deck switches". Instructions for putting the pump together can be found at Laurie Ford's website, which doesn't seem to be working just now. My club, the Victorian Sea Kayak Club, now has a website, http://www.vskc.org.au/. I'll see if instructions for electric pump fitting can be included as soon as possible. Simple reliable foot pumps mounted on the front bulkhead can be made from converted cheap Taiwanese hand bilge pumps, see http://www.nswseakayaker.asn.au/, search for Norm Sanders and bilge pumps. You bolt it to the front bulkhead, cut off the lever a little, and bungy it under the deck. The input tube shown by Norm isn't vital, just take a plastic tube straight down to within a centimetre or so of the bilge. Or see Peter Carter's notes at http://www.canoesa.asn.au/ed/seakayak.html or http://users.senet.com.au/%7Epcarter/pumps.html for internal spring modified designs. BTW, the Performa II looks like a great boat. Send over a spare mould :-). Cheers, PT *************************************************************************** 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 Jul 29 2003 - 06:02:20 PDT
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