> Found it hard to know where to put > stuff, food drink etc. Its OK on flat water where you can undo the sea sock, > but at sea? I'm not using the seasock, but just too lazy to undo the skirt any whenever I need something. Solution is to use a deckbag (Sealine Baja deck bag is OK, if $60 is OK to you). Any old waist pouch is OK too, provided it's big enough. I'm using pretty big skiing (or is it bike?) waist pouch, buckled to the fore deck. Zipper isn't waterproof, but food is in ziplock anyway. Those Sealine bags seem to be pretty waterproof, with flap above the zipper. Made of vinyl and a little but heavy. > Very impressive. The sea sock comes into its own. After leaviing the boat > the interior was already dry and the whole boat was dry within the time it > takes to drink a beer, (carefully controlled test:~). It could be cleaned > with only a damp wet cloth - an important consideration in drought affected > Australia. In mild temps of Pacific Northwest and if there is no sun it would take a bit more beer. About 4-6 hours, and *dry* sponge will be needed to remove the water that remains between the hull and lower side of the sponson, especially if it was rinsed inside with a freshwater (which is plentiful here, ulike the sun). I have found the skin softer and easier to assemble again after I have washed it in a fresh whater, btw. > Assembly > The booklet instructions were clear, the lever system works very well. For > a while the boat seemed easy to assemble - UNTIL I GOT TO THE LAST NOTCH ON > THE LAST STERN CROSS RIB Don't have this problem, but mine is Big Kahuna, with cockpit ribs farther apart (fore rib is farther for sure, but don't know whether aft rib is in the same location same as yours. Alex. *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Sep 27 2003 - 11:21:40 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:10 PDT