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- Sun Jan 10, 2021 2:24 pm
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Hatch rim screws, catch fabric etc
- Replies: 22
- Views: 472
Re: Hatch rim screws, catch fabric etc
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.
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 10:00 am
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Keel Repair/Strengthening
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1048
Re: Keel Repair/Strengthening
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...
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 10:12 am
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: New member.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 370
Re: New member.
Welcome!
- Tue Nov 24, 2020 7:44 pm
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Looking for help with a kayak?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 318
Re: Looking for help with a kayak?
It's a fun requet, but I'm too far away. Best of luck, though.
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 12:18 pm
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring Gear For Sale
- Topic: Wanted small white water paddle
- Replies: 10
- Views: 388
Re: Wanted small white water paddle
Tom
Ooops, sorry, I see you've already said "standard width"
Ooops, sorry, I see you've already said "standard width"
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 12:17 pm
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring Gear For Sale
- Topic: Wanted small white water paddle
- Replies: 10
- Views: 388
Re: Wanted small white water paddle
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...
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 12:13 pm
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring Gear For Sale
- Topic: Wanted Werner Rio or similar small shaft paddle
- Replies: 0
- Views: 118
Wanted Werner Rio or similar small shaft paddle
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?
Anyone got this or a similar small shaft paddle?
- Tue Nov 10, 2020 9:31 am
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Aging my Nordkapp
- Replies: 15
- Views: 685
Re: Aging my Nordkapp
Phil
Yes, you're right - didn't look closely enough at the pictures. Those hatches are fitted from the inside.
Yes, you're right - didn't look closely enough at the pictures. Those hatches are fitted from the inside.
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:35 am
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Aging my Nordkapp
- Replies: 15
- Views: 685
Re: Aging my Nordkapp
Might be worth having a look with a mirror and trying to decide whether the hatch rims are original or a retrofit.
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 2:29 pm
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Replacing lost skeg
- Replies: 12
- Views: 470
Re: Replacing lost skeg
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 to all.
It's 6 mm think, by the way
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:37 pm
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Replacing lost skeg
- Replies: 12
- Views: 470
Re: Replacing lost skeg
Thanks, folks.
Any idea what the material thickness should be? IIRC it was thinner than my kitchen chopping board
Any idea what the material thickness should be? IIRC it was thinner than my kitchen chopping board
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 4:16 pm
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Replacing lost skeg
- Replies: 12
- Views: 470
Replacing lost skeg
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...
- Fri Oct 09, 2020 11:29 am
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Blade area of Lendal Kinetic Touring paddle?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 559
Re: Blade area of Lendal Kinetic Touring paddle?
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 ...
- Fri Oct 09, 2020 11:23 am
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Celtic Paddles
- Replies: 1
- Views: 513
Re: Celtic Paddles
I had a smilar recent happy experience with the ever-helpful Celtic Paddles.
- Fri Oct 09, 2020 11:21 am
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Paddle shaft crack
- Replies: 11
- Views: 528
Re: Paddle shaft crack
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...
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 5:37 pm
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Blade area of Lendal Kinetic Touring paddle?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 559
Re: Blade area of Lendal Kinetic Touring paddle?
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, ...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 10:18 am
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Blade area of Lendal Kinetic Touring paddle?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 559
Re: Blade area of Lendal Kinetic Touring paddle?
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 ...
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:19 pm
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Blade area of Lendal Kinetic Touring paddle?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 559
Re: Blade area of Lendal Kinetic Touring paddle?
I have asked Celtic Paddles, but answer came there none.
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 12:09 pm
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Blade area of Lendal Kinetic Touring paddle?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 559
Blade area of Lendal Kinetic Touring paddle?
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 ...
- Tue May 05, 2020 11:59 am
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring
- Topic: First time boat buying, sizing help?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 683
Re: First time boat buying, sizing help?
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.
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.
- Tue May 05, 2020 7:26 am
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring
- Topic: First time boat buying, sizing help?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 683
Re: First time boat buying, sizing help?
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.
- Sat May 02, 2020 8:36 am
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring
- Topic: problem with footrest
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1779
Re: problem with footrest
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,...
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 8:47 am
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Grab handle on throwlines
- Replies: 6
- Views: 731
Re: Grab handle on throwlines
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...
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 8:38 am
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Recommendations Appreciated
- Replies: 8
- Views: 656
Re: Recommendations Appreciated
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...
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:25 am
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Hatch covers lubricant
- Replies: 9
- Views: 785
Re: Hatch covers lubricant
I understand that the silicone spray also prolongs the life of the hatch material
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:15 pm
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: Hatch covers lubricant
- Replies: 9
- Views: 785
Re: Hatch covers lubricant
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
But it's never happened, and I continue to use it. The extreme slip wears off quite quickly, anyway
- Wed Feb 26, 2020 12:52 pm
- Forum: Sea Kayaking
- Topic: new from British Canoeing
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1956
Re: new from British Canoeing
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.
- Wed Feb 26, 2020 11:37 am
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring
- Topic: BC consultation
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4006
Re: BC consultation
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...
- Wed Feb 19, 2020 9:59 am
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring
- Topic: BC consultation
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4006
Re: BC consultation
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...
- Wed Feb 19, 2020 9:30 am
- Forum: Whitewater and Touring
- Topic: BC consultation
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4006
Re: BC consultation
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...