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Re: I vote for vent on top
By:Dean Trexel
Date: 7/9/2000, 3:15 pm
In Response To: Re: Venting bulkheads (Mike Scarborough)

I wonder, too. I put my vents close to the top. I figure that:

1) the kayak won't be upside-down for long

2) when upside-down, there isn't much water in the cockpit, anyway

3) when righted, the cockpit may end up more than 1/2-full in the re-entry process.

4) it's pretty unlikely that a wet-exit will coincide with such a pressure differential, anyway. This is only the second case of a blow-out I've heard of -- the other being a kayak that was mounted upside-down on the roof of a parked car. In the hot sun, even with a white hull, the pressure blew off a Beckson pry-out hatch and broke the windshield.

Dean

: I'm curious--why does locating the vent close to the metacenter matter?

: Mike

Messages In This Thread

Venting bulkheads
Jack Martin -- 7/7/2000, 6:26 pm
Re: Venting bulkheads
Ken -- 7/11/2000, 12:12 pm
Re: Venting bulkheads
Jack Martin -- 7/11/2000, 1:50 pm
Re: Venting bulkheads
peter czerpak -- 7/10/2000, 12:15 pm
It needs to be two-way
Brian Nystrom -- 7/10/2000, 3:33 pm
Re: Venting bulkheads
Jack Martin -- 7/10/2000, 2:15 pm
Vent for Bulkheads
Andreas Albat -- 7/10/2000, 12:02 pm
Another vent
mike allen ---> -- 7/10/2000, 6:27 pm
Re: Vent for Bulkheads
Brian Nystrom -- 7/10/2000, 3:29 pm
Re: Vent for Bulkheads
Robb -- 7/10/2000, 12:09 pm
Re: Venting bulkheads
Vernon Lowery -- 7/8/2000, 8:39 pm
Re: Venting bulkheads
Mike Scarborough -- 7/8/2000, 12:52 pm
Re: I vote for vent on top
Dean Trexel -- 7/9/2000, 3:15 pm
Re: Venting bulkheads
lee -- 7/7/2000, 11:24 pm
Re: Venting bulkheads
Jack Martin -- 7/8/2000, 1:12 am