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Re: Strip: Buying Footbraces
By:Alex Ferguson
Date: 7/6/2011, 4:55 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Buying Footbraces (Wayne One (wwfloyd))

: I did look. An interesting design, but didn't appear ideal... as
: potentially heavy,

You can do quite a bit of lightening.

: and potentially not up to the use or abuse
: that some expect foot braces to take.

If you abuse them more than standing the kayak vertical in the surf, bow stuck in the sand, I'd be worried more about bodily injury. An 80+ kg paddler and no problems. How much stronger do you want them to be? They survive perfectly well when doing that.

I would expect any paddler's feet would have slipped off the side pedals and they'd have slipped into the cockpit and be standing on the bulkhead, NOT a good place to be when the kayak inverts and in the surf.

: And, in a Yost style SOF,
: I'm not sure the 1 x 3/4 inch keelson of cedar, redwood or other
: light wood is really up to the repeated torquing of an
: aggressive paddler.

So? Reinforce. Use diagonals. If the keelson won't take it I suspect the rest of the hull will suffer too with side mounted pedals.

Incidentally, the stress on the keelson will be at two points about 1/2 metre apart. If you can break the keel pressing against a pedal a tenth of that width out from the keel I suspect you need a carbon/kevlar kayak with steel reinforcing.

Just what pressure-to-break for the commercial plastic pedals?

Alex

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Strip: Buying Footbraces
Jim Schaffer -- 7/2/2011, 9:49 am
Re: Strip: Buying Footbraces
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 7/2/2011, 10:04 am
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Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 7/2/2011, 10:27 am
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Jeff Horton -- 7/2/2011, 1:23 pm
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Jim Schaffer -- 7/2/2011, 9:28 pm
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Erik Jensen -- 7/2/2011, 11:52 pm
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Jim Schaffer -- 7/3/2011, 7:41 am
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Jeff Horton -- 7/3/2011, 10:21 am
Location measurements
Jeff Horton -- 7/3/2011, 10:19 am
Re: Location measurements
Bill Hamm -- 7/4/2011, 12:22 am
Re: Location measurements
Jim Schaffer -- 7/4/2011, 2:20 pm
Re: Location measurements
Bill Hamm -- 7/5/2011, 12:43 am
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John Caldeira -- 7/2/2011, 11:19 am
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Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 7/2/2011, 12:13 pm
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george jung -- 7/2/2011, 1:56 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/3/2011, 12:24 am
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John Caldeira -- 7/2/2011, 3:51 pm
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Alex Ferguson -- 7/3/2011, 7:04 am
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john raley -- 7/3/2011, 8:08 am
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Alex Ferguson -- 7/3/2011, 7:42 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/4/2011, 12:25 am
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Alex Ferguson -- 7/4/2011, 1:21 am
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Bob Johns -- 7/4/2011, 7:42 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/5/2011, 12:45 am
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John Caldeira -- 7/4/2011, 10:38 pm
Re: Nick Schade's Footbraces
jeffrey wong -- 7/5/2011, 12:40 am
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jeffrey wong -- 7/5/2011, 12:14 am
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Wayne One (wwfloyd) -- 7/5/2011, 12:53 am
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Alex Ferguson -- 7/5/2011, 7:02 am
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Wayne One (wwfloyd) -- 7/5/2011, 8:18 am
Re: Strip: Buying Footbraces
Alex Ferguson -- 7/6/2011, 4:55 am