the wuestion was: What do the whitewater kayakers do? They are the ones who seem to be almost glued into their boats! My answer has always been to use only foam bulkheads as foot braces. This has many good advantages over adjustable pegs: They are a bit soft and very comfortable to push against. They allow me to move my feet around a lot and still be in a pushing mode. No one else has legs as short as mine, so no one can borrow my boats. Adjustment is as easy as putting in a different set of foam, but I've never had to do it. It adds flotation. Slalom boats have minimal, almost no, flotation, so the bulkheads make the boat legal. When the boat is on end, there is no concern about sliding down into the boat like a pen in pocket protector. The footbraces can't break or jam. Jim Tibensky *************************************************************************** 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 Sep 16 2008 - 05:05:02 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:30 PDT