Rick, Like usual, the article was rather vague. The kayak was described as being 13 feet long. My guess is that it is a recreation/pond kayak with no flotation or bulkheads. However, a reporter may consider a cockpit full of water in a kayak with bulkheads as sinking kayak, so who knows. This incident isn't worthy of doing the type of investigation that Doug Lloyd does, because the mistakes this guy made don't apply to me and the friends I paddle with. Duane ----- Original Message ----- From: <Rick.Sylvia_at_ferguson.com> > > said he couldn't splash the 59 degree F. water out of his sinking > kayak > > faster than it was coming in. > > Duane, did the article say why the kayak was sinking? What caused the > leak? A collision? A seam failure? Too much UV degradation causing a > fracture? Frequent waves flooding the exposed cockpit? Something else? *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Mar 26 2004 - 09:55:44 PST
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