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Floatation
By:Mike Scarborough
Date: 11/9/1999, 1:20 pm
In Response To: floatation (Arnold Banner)

If you ever wet-exit a kayak in an emergency situation you will want as much flotation as possible. This means watertight bulkheads and hatches front and rear. If for some reason you can't have bulkheads, use the largest air bags you can, inflated fully and fixed in position.

Read the book "Deep Trouble," about kayaking disasters. See how many seemingly small problems became life threatening when paddlers couldn't recover from a capsize in a boat without adequate flotation.

Messages In This Thread

floatation
Arnold Banner -- 11/9/1999, 10:49 am
Re: floatation
Max (actually, Marcelo) -- 11/10/1999, 8:31 am
Pros and Cons
Mike Scarborough -- 11/10/1999, 10:18 am
Re: Pros and Cons
Kelly T -- 11/11/1999, 9:16 am
Re: floatation & hatch failure
Jack -- 11/10/1999, 10:08 am
Getting bags to the ends
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/10/1999, 5:19 am
Re: Getting bags to the ends
Rehd -- 11/10/1999, 7:17 pm
Re: Getting bags to the ends
Dean Trexel -- 11/10/1999, 9:05 pm
Re: Getting bags to the ends
Rehd -- 11/10/1999, 11:32 pm
Re: Sorry about that
Rehd -- 11/10/1999, 11:41 pm
Re: floatation ???
Greg Hicks -- 11/9/1999, 1:48 pm
Re: floatation ???
Jack Martin -- 11/10/1999, 7:28 am
Floatation
Mike Scarborough -- 11/9/1999, 1:20 pm
Re: floatation
the unforgiven -- 11/9/1999, 1:01 pm
Re: floatation
lee -- 11/9/1999, 12:59 pm
Re: floatation
Ross Leidy -- 11/9/1999, 10:53 am