Boat Forum / Paddle Boats / April 2007

Somebody's got me convinced that it's worth the time to wash my
dry suit's seals in a little warm soapy water after use (to
extend seal life by getting rid of sunscreen & body oils)
Does anybody else do this?

Seen this?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/04/nriver04.xml
That'll put the access campaign back 20 years.  Of course, you all
know that

Anyone have any suggestions for no more then one day sea kayaking trips in
South Florida. I plan on spending a week traveling around South Florida
exploring different ecosystems from the Everglades to the keys and possibly
go searching for some manatee. Anyone have suggestions for ...

I'm interested in finding water temperature data for flatwater lakes,
rivers and streams.  Does anyone know of an online source?

On Sunday, I heard a spiel from a major paddle maker's rep to the effect that
offsetting the paddle blades 45 degrees makes for the least wrist rotation:
namely none.
If I understood it correctly, the rationale was that if one's body is twisting

I was just thinking... what if you added a few Gore-Tex patches on the
sleeves of a conventional drytop? Or wouldn't it make sense for them
to make drytops with just the sleeves made of Gore-Tex?

I've got a dry top that has a fabric skirt which, I guess, is intended to
overlap the spray skirt on a decked boat.  viz: http://tinyurl.com/2txu9e
Also have a farmer john viz: http://tinyurl.com/3dhz9o
Don't have a decked boat, but I'd like the fabric skirt to help keep water out

I'm dabbling in wave-skiing.
The serious paddlers all wear seat belts as in
http://www.123scuba.com/p-WTWB52.html instead of
thigh straps to maintain their contact with the ski.

My name is Elliott, and I am seeking the help of as many people as I
can get. I'm doing a school project at Boston University and we need
people to fill out a quick survey that will take about 3-4 minutes to
fill out regarding a new product for kayaks.

I have a woodstrip racing sea kayak patterned after the Seda Glider.
It has a really high back deck (cockpit combing). I can't lean back
hardly at all in it. I've been trying to learn how to roll it. So far,
so shaky. I wish I could get my C of G lower as my torso comes out of

Had an opened tube of AquaSeal in the freezer for a month or six weeks
and found that maybe 1/5 of the tube had hardened. Is this typical? It
was quite a fight to get to the liquid portion. Is there any better
way to preserve an opened tube? Thanks.

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