Toggle clack is one of the great embarrassments of the modern kayaking age, only recently addressed with new little bungie cord engineering tweaks. The issue of twisting toggle-cause finger injury issues however, remain a multi-national wide travesty that apparently, few bloggers have identified for open discussion. Who knew that such an innocent looking 2 1/2 inch piece of molded plastic might be the undoing of such a fine pastime as sea kayaking? Keep your toggles in check, gentleman! Okay, I gotta go pack... DL From: "MATT MARINER BROZE" > The worst thing was the ear splitting and frequent "toggle clacks". How do you > stand them? The kayak seemed stable in the extremely, but the horizon was > sure > tipping around. The really loud toggle clack near the beginning is me accidentally smacking the camera with my paddle as I was throwing in an emergency brace. What I didn't know was that I broke the epoxy bond to the camera case when I smacked it. When I got ashore the case came off in my hand. It was tethered to the boat but how it stayed on the mount is beyond me. I kind of like the toggle clacks. It's really neat when you catch a good wave and the toggle starts a rat a tat tat as you surf down the face. I've got a friend you paddles one of those awful Valley boats and his toggle hangs on single line and does the same thing. When ever I hear it I know he's flying along grinning like a mad man. Gordin *************************************************************************** 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 Apr 16 2010 - 22:26:00 PDT
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