>Now I'm starting to wonder if I could buy one or two of the inflatable stablizers seperately from Scotty. If I use my spare paddle as the outrigger arm, I'm not carrying any additional weight. And I may be able to use the stablizer in leui of a paddlefloat, with the added bonus that it looks like it should be possible to paddle to some degree with it in place. >I could also see it being handy on long solo crossings, where you need a bit of stability to eat or answer nature's call. If I can get the stablizers seperately, I might start mucking around with this. Nothing ventured, nothing gained... You might want to try Seawings, made by Feathercraft (and earlier - by Tim Ingram, but I don't know if they are still on the market). Watertribe Magazine has an article with a good description of Tim's sponsons installation on a kayak ("Rigging a CLass 3 boat"). Or it was one of those kayak-looking Kruger canoes, I don't remember. Looks like an adequate stabilizer for choppy crossings, and enough to answer a nature call, provided you do this in a bailer-scoop or similar item rather than trying to stand upright (which I wouldn't do, firstly because there is no mast to hold on to, and secondly, because sometimes the wind is coming from the direction that you don't want ;-).... *************************************************************************** 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 Dec 26 2006 - 13:18:03 PST
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