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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Big Foot & the Sea Tour 17R
By:brian scarborough
Date: 4/28/2010, 3:53 pm
In Response To: Skin-on-Frame: Big Foot & the Sea Tour 17R (Matt Swier)

You might reconsider your paddling footwear. Keens are huge inside low volume kayaks.

I prefer NRS Desperado Socks in my SOF. http://www.nrsweb.com/shop/product.asp?pfid=2344
Or NRS Rodeo Socks http://www.nrsweb.com/shop/product.asp?pfid=2343

They have just enough sole on them to keep my feet from being cut on shells or rocks, and have tested fine at low tide at Twanoh State Park in WA, site of SSTIKS, which is a notoriously rocky and oyster shell infested beach. Yet they are very low profile, great for slipping into SOF kayaks. Desperado Socks are good with a footie drysuit, because they aren't too tall. Rodeo Socks are much higher, and you'd probably want to stick to bare feet because of that.

Still, you've almost got boats stuck to the ends of each leg to stuff into your kayak... You should probably send Tom the length of your feet, and ask him what he thinks.

Brian

: Howdy...

: Just starting a build of the Sea Tour 17R and I'm afraid that my
: size 13 feet, usually with Keen paddling shoes on, might not
: fit. Has anyone else with large feet paddled this boat? Can I
: keep the cross section offsets on #'s 3 & 4 the same or
: should I increase the deck height numbers a bit? Based on the
: Yost numbers, #3 is 0.898 ft and #4 is 0.200 ft.

: Luckily I thought of this before cutting the cross sections. I have
: them mapped out on plywood, but they can easily be modified.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Big Foot & the Sea Tour 17R
Matt Swier -- 4/27/2010, 11:29 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Big Foot & the Sea Tour 17R
brian scarborough -- 4/28/2010, 3:53 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Big Foot & the Sea Tour 17R
Bill Hamm -- 4/28/2010, 12:35 am