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Water leaking through coaming on Coho?
By:Tom Farre
Date: 9/17/1999, 9:17 am
In Response To: what are design alternatives for coaming? (David Walker)

I have Pygmy Coho, and have a similar problem of water leaking into the boat during rolling practice, etc. -- the coaming-skirt seal seems to let water in when the boat is tipped on its side. (I bought the skirt recommended by Pygmy for "athletic kayaking.") Anyone else have this problem -- and if so, do you think a different skirt solve it?

In my old plastic Sealution, I never got a drop of water inside boat. In
> my CLC boat, I get a lot of water in boat when rolling etc. My guess is
> that the design of the coaming just doesn't provide a good seal in so far
> as the coaming wall rises vertically from deck and then the coaming rim (1
> sheet of plywood thick) juts out perpendicular to this (and parallel to
> deck). As a result, the skirt is really only exerting significant pressure
> at the edge of the top layer of plywood. I am not using the skirt CLC
> sells BTW. I found it extremely tight, so much so that I had difficulty
> getting out of boat even on dry land. Perhaps this would also keep water
> out, but I am leary of such a tight skirt. The sealution had more of a
> curved coaming such that skirt seals along entire edge of coaming rim.
> Anyway, I plan to get another CLC boat (the North Bay), but would like to
> modify coaming and am wondering what other designs are out there for the
> home builder. Actually, this may be a bit less of an issue with the North
> Bay as the small diameter coaming is available as opposed to the monster
> sized coaming of the Chesapeake, but am still wondering.

> Thanks

Messages In This Thread

what are design alternatives for coaming?
David Walker -- 9/16/1999, 11:25 pm
Re: what are design alternatives for coaming?
Hans Friedel -- 9/17/1999, 6:16 pm
Re: what are design alternatives for coaming?
lee -- 9/17/1999, 3:02 pm
Re: what are design alternatives for coaming?
Grant Goltz -- 9/17/1999, 12:42 pm
Water leaking through coaming on Coho?
Tom Farre -- 9/17/1999, 9:17 am
try replicating the sealution share
john rominski -- 9/17/1999, 8:08 am
Re: what are design alternatives for coaming?
Paul Lund -- 9/17/1999, 7:59 am
Re: what are design alternatives for coaming?
Shawn Baker -- 9/17/1999, 10:35 am
Re: what are design alternatives for coaming?
David Walker -- 9/17/1999, 11:16 am
Re: what are design alternatives for coaming?
Paul Lund -- 9/17/1999, 8:47 pm
Re: what are design alternatives for coaming?
Byron Lawrence -- 9/18/1999, 9:10 pm