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Re: Sprayskirt size
By:Mike Scarborough
Date: 2/20/2000, 8:49 am
In Response To: Re: Sprayskirt size (frits swinkels)

That's one of the great thigs about building your own boat. You can put any cockpit in it that you want to. I'm building by Guillemot with a cockpit that matches the Valley Canoe Products "small" cockpit. That way I can use the same skirt as on my Pintail. It's pretty quick and easy to trace the outline of a cockpit off an existing boat.

My first two boats were from CLC kits.(Cape Charles 17 & Patuxent 17.5) I found that Perception makes an all-neophrene skirt that fits nicely. It has some adjustment to the rim shock cord. There are also straps to adjust the waist to get a good fit around the paddler. I suspect that the Chespeake rim is about the same size

Messages In This Thread

Sprayskirt size
Dennis Horak -- 2/19/2000, 8:29 am
Re: Sprayskirt size
David Walker -- 2/21/2000, 1:08 am
Re: Sprayskirt size
Bill Heuser -- 2/22/2000, 7:29 pm
Re: Sprayskirt size
frits swinkels -- 2/19/2000, 7:55 pm
Re: Sprayskirt size
Mike Scarborough -- 2/20/2000, 8:49 am
Re: Sprayskirt size
Shawn Baker -- 2/19/2000, 5:42 pm