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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Flotation bags... Wine cask bag
By:Daniel from sweden
Date: 4/16/2009, 11:39 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Flotation bags... Wine cask bag (Andy Waddington)

: I use these all the time for whitewater, rather than custom-fitted PVC
: float bags.

: 1) You have a a degree of redundancy - it takes four or five to fill each
: side of the boat behind the cockpit, so if one bag bursts you only lose
: 10% of your buoyancy rather than 50% if one of the PVC bags bursts (I use
: the 3 litre wine bags)
: 2) They do rupture catastrophically from time to time, but if you use a
: sligthly larger number of them, not fully inflated (a) there is less risk
: of failure and (b) you can just blow the remaining bags up a bit harder
: and be
: no worse off.
: 3) It's easy to add or remove bags as you vary the amount of kit you need to
: carry in the boat - put small things in the boat and blow a bag up to hold
: it in. All in all a lot more versatile than the normal
: one-big-bag-in-each-half
: arrangement.
: 4) As we generate lots more of these than I need (wine boxes are perfect for
: wine for cooking, even if you turn your nose up at drinking the stuff) and
: they store quite well flat, I always have several kicking around in the
: car in case I need a replacement - or want to lend a few to someone else
: who bursts a bag.
: 5) We've had several bought (and not cheap) PVC bags fail - usually in the
: cold as the pipe stiffens up and tears out of the bag.
: 6) They smell great as you let them down to fit more gear in ...

: All in all, even if PVC bags were free, I think I'd still use the wine bags.

: Andy

Ok.
I surrender, not to the drinking part (I´s my wife´s job)but to the fact that wine cask bags is the thing.

another off topic question: how is your range of wine in wine cask bags? Is ther any good wins or just ordinary wines?

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Flotation bags... Wine cask bags!
Brian Lemin -- 4/4/2009, 5:33 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Flotation bags... Wine cask bag
Andy Waddington -- 4/16/2009, 6:36 am
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Daniel from sweden -- 4/16/2009, 11:39 am
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Brian Lemin -- 4/17/2009, 4:11 am
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Brian Lemin -- 4/16/2009, 8:56 am
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Bryan Hansel -- 4/5/2009, 9:55 am
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Daniel from sweden -- 4/5/2009, 12:58 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/6/2009, 12:46 am
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Mike Savage -- 4/5/2009, 4:34 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 4/5/2009, 4:26 pm
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Daniel from sweden -- 4/6/2009, 3:26 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 4/5/2009, 2:34 pm
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Daniel from sweden -- 4/5/2009, 8:18 am
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JohnK -- 4/4/2009, 6:07 am
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Etienne Muller -- 4/4/2009, 12:25 pm
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JohnK -- 4/4/2009, 5:07 pm
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Brian Lemin -- 4/5/2009, 2:58 am
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JohnK -- 4/5/2009, 3:17 am