I've had to replace a hatch ring cracked at the bots (and leaking at the cracks). I bonded it in with no bolts, and it's solid. I wouldn't use bolts again, and if I found bolts I'd take them out.

Off topic, but maybe a contribution. I've used KeelEasy several times, and it has both good and less good features. It's easy to apply, looks good, and stays stuck. If I change my mind, I can remove it without damage to the kayak. Downsides are that it is quite thick: so it spoils the lines of the k...

Welcome!

It's a fun requet, but I'm too far away. Best of luck, though.

Tom
Ooops, sorry, I see you've already said "standard width"

I have a set of Glass Werner Players that almost meet your requirements. They are right hand, 45 feather. These were sold as 190, but actually come up at 188cm. Cranked shaft, standard width. Used with wear, nothing unexpected for a pair of used blades. Selling as I’ve upgraded to a paddle better s...

I'm looking for a Werner Rio paddle, 191 cm, 45 degree feather RH, small shaft.

Anyone got this or a similar small shaft paddle?

Phil
Yes, you're right - didn't look closely enough at the pictures. Those hatches are fitted from the inside.

Might be worth having a look with a mirror and trying to decide whether the hatch rims are original or a retrofit.

With assistance from the ever-helpful Ann at Karitek, I found that Sea Kayak Oban had a Valley skeg in stock. Ordered it, and fitted it this morning - perfect fit.

Thanks to all.

It's 6 mm think, by the way

Thanks, folks.

Any idea what the material thickness should be? IIRC it was thinner than my kitchen chopping board

The skeg on my No 2 kayak has dropped out, and is now somewhere at the bottom of Loch Sunart. So I need to source or make a replacement. The kayak was manufactured without a skeg ( and is an 'orribe paddle without the skeg). Sometime between 1998 and 2002 I bought a skeg kit and fitted it - but I ca...

The yellow blade in my picture at the top of the post is the same shape and area as a Kinetic 700. With essential help from Celtic Paddles, I've fixed it. Important information is that there is a double-ended spigot, which engages with both the shaft and the blade. Trick is to cut the blade off the ...

I had a smilar recent happy experience with the ever-helpful Celtic Paddles.

I've used ordinary 2-part Araldite to do this, and Kevlar tape. Trick was to heat the shaft before and during applying the epoxy, so that the epoxy thins and soaks in as trhe tape is wound. I didn't bother with peel ply or anything, as i didn't care about appearance much. On a similar repar, where t...

Celtic Paddles came back to me, after a prod. They say the new Kinetik 700 has the same blade area as the old Kinetik Touring. [My own measuremnt of teh area gave about 670 cm^2, though it depends where you assume the blade stops and the shaft starts.] I'd missed the helpful Sea Kayak Oban website, ...

Well, they now do Kinetik Touring 600, 650, 700 - although I suspect yours is of a generation prior to those size offerings. Between us, Cat and I have 4 sets of KT's, but I'm afraid that none have the size noted on them and I suspect they too pre-date the size choice. You mentioned that you'd not ...

I have asked Celtic Paddles, but answer came there none.

https://media.ukriversguidebook.co.uk/uploads/2786/1599476337764-0763.png After many years, I've cracked one blade of ny much-loved paddle. The width of the is 19 cm - I'n not sure where to measure the length from. I need a new blade, or, most likely, a new paddle. The blade area id just right for ...

Franky
Up to a point, yes .... but a Dagger GT is still a white-water boat, not an all-rounder. Depennds on whther the OP's aim is to have fun or to learn-through-suffering. Something with a skeg would be good - an Easky would be ideal.

As you've probably already sussed, the kayaks you mention are designed for white water, where the critical thing is to be able to turn really fast. On flat wter they will be painfully slow and frustratingly difficult to keep on a straight line.

This is a common problem, even without salt water. The bolt is steel, and the footrest bar is aluminium. When damp, there's galvanic corrosion. There's usually a nut on the inside, between the hull and the footrest bar. If you can get a slim spanner in there, and a big pair of grips on the hand-nut,...

In theory someone could get their hand caught in this, in practice it is very unlikely. Current best practice is to adjust the size of the loop as small as possible, so you can get a crab through it, but not a hand. Seconded. It's useful to have some sort of loop so's to allow another rope to be ti...

The imporatnt thing is to get a boat which fits you. They all fit the water, as the water's infinitely adjusatable. First thing is size: small person, small boat; big person big boat. It mightseem that you can't go wrong with a too-big boat - but it doesn't work well. Manufacturers usually quote a d...

I understand that the silicone spray also prolongs the life of the hatch material

I've used a silicone spray designed for the job - nver thried WD40. As you find, the hatches become a breeze to fit, and, like you, I've worried about them being washed off by a wave.

But it's never happened, and I continue to use it. The extreme slip wears off quite quickly, anyway

I'll repeat what I said over in ther WW and touring section: insurance is a good servant but a bad master. If we have an interst in isurance, we need to decide what we want to do and then get insurance to cover that, not the other way round.

If a group of paddlers who do peer paddles decide to form a club, and wish to affiliate to BC, do they need some of their members to become qualified? I don't think any qualifications are required for affiliation. The issue is whther qualifications will be required to get the benefit of the neglige...

I'm not as despondent. Very few people get sued, and few of us hesitate to help, and I don't think anyone what has helped has been sucesfully sued (?? anyone know?). I think that the issue here is that someone is negotiating with the insurer from a position of weakness - "here's the contract, now te...

I agree with you, except that I don't think that a rescuer who acts under their own free will can sue a rescuee. We need to try to avert the doom by speaking out - the document was a consultaion, and I hope clubs responded. [I'm in Scotland, so my club didn't get a vote. I am worried that the insura...