On 11 Jun 2005 at 10:36, MICHAEL SILVIUS wrote: > also most large wholesale clubs SAMs and BJ sell food products in > large wide mouth gallon ++ size containers. Something to look in to. Assuming you can _eat_ that much! :-) > material to use is coverlight PVC coated polyester and HH-66 pvc > cement. If I was to make a dedicated* food drybag, my preference would be for the heavier PVC than any nylon heat-sealable fabric I've seen. Food is heavy and you want a bag that can take a lot of abuse. You can hang the bag and it should stand up to anything short of a bear. (certainly the PVC can handle all but the most aggressive raccoons). I've converted some old reinforced PVC drybags (the almost-see-thru versions that Seal Line used to make) into food bags. Of course, you can easily buy the Kodiak (? I think that's the line) PVC drybags from Seal Line if you don't want to make them. *I would never advocate using a drybag for food sometimes and clothing other times, especially if you paddle and camp in areas where bears are about. If you do camp in bear country a lot, a bearproof container is worth considering - like the bigger olive jars, they are hard to fit into a kayak. A bear would treat an olive jar the way a 7 year old treats a candy wrapper. They treat a bear container the way a 7 yr old treats a soccer ball. I don't have much faith in the Kevlar bearproof food bags - but that's due to a lack of scuttlebutt to the effect that they actually work. Mike PS - speaking of drybags, Outdoor Research has a 17 liter compression drybag that might be a great sleeping bag drybag = it's about the right size. 'haven't seen this model yet, though. *************************************************************************** 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 Jun 11 2005 - 16:23:13 PDT
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