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cheap floatbag= drybag + floatbag idea
By:mike allen --->
Date: 8/30/2001, 4:27 pm
In Response To: Yes, it will work. (Randy Knauff)

here's a real stupid totally cheap idea using the way drybags sorta operate but applied to a dumass float bag.

you get a DOUBLE strength drybag as well as the original floatbag all for the price of the cheap blowtube ONLY floatbag.

you buy the looooooongest cheap (rectangular if possible, better if not tapered)float bag you can, blow it up 1/4 full and INVERT the far end inside the bag so the far end now touches the near end and the bag is now only 1/2 as long. fill this inverted part 2/3 full of gear and fold the ends flat down. then place down say 20inches of 1in wide webbing and fold this end over say 4 or 5 times over the webbing(or maybe a line'd be ok) and tie the ends of the webbing togther tight and you have a 2 layer drybag.

let out the air in the tube, slide the bag into the yak and blow up using the blow tube. 2 for one! the drybag is double thickness everywhere. only problem is the gear is not lockedin place and can flop around a bit.

-might even work

-mick

Messages In This Thread

Float bags for SOF boat?
Brian Nystrom -- 8/30/2001, 12:39 pm
Re: Float bags for SOF boat?
Linda -- 9/3/2001, 6:41 pm
Re: Float bags for SOF boat?
Brian Nystrom -- 9/4/2001, 12:20 pm
Re: Float bags for SOF boat?
Rehd -- 9/3/2001, 6:54 pm
Baidarka Bags
Richard Boyle -- 8/30/2001, 10:15 pm
Re: Float bags for SOF boat?
Greg Stamer -- 8/30/2001, 5:54 pm
Go with solid floation
West -- 8/30/2001, 4:09 pm
That's not an option for me
Brian Nystrom -- 8/30/2001, 4:21 pm
There are options, and there are other options
Paul G. Jacobson -- 8/31/2001, 2:05 am
Re: There are options, and there are other options *NM*
Charles D. Haynes -- 9/2/2001, 11:22 am
Re: That's not an option for me
West -- 8/30/2001, 8:53 pm
Re: Float bags for SOF boat?
KenB -- 8/30/2001, 2:43 pm
Re: Float bags for SOF boat?
Randy Knauff -- 8/30/2001, 2:07 pm
Re: Float bags for SOF boat? *Pic*
Dean Trexel -- 9/3/2001, 7:38 pm
Re: Float bags for SOF boat?
Brian Nystrom -- 9/4/2001, 12:24 pm
an idea
mike allen ---> -- 8/30/2001, 2:37 pm
Re: an idea
Bill Price -- 8/30/2001, 3:16 pm
Re: an idea
Randy Knauff -- 8/30/2001, 2:58 pm
oh, oh - the idea wouldn't work
mike allen ---> -- 8/30/2001, 3:12 pm
Yes, it will work.
Randy Knauff -- 8/30/2001, 3:42 pm
cheap floatbag= drybag + floatbag idea
mike allen ---> -- 8/30/2001, 4:27 pm
sorry, meant my idea, not theirs.
mike allen ---> -- 8/30/2001, 4:14 pm
Re: Float bags for SOF boat?
West -- 8/30/2001, 1:27 pm
Re: Float bags for SOF boat?
Roger Nuffer -- 8/30/2001, 4:35 pm