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Re: Kayak floats
By:NPenney
Date: 6/1/1998, 10:53 am
In Response To: Re: Kayak floats (Wynne Eden)

The way I saw them being used was filling up the bilge space under the deck of a power boat. They slightly overfilled it, and squashed them a bit placing the deck down. Wouldn't work for a kayak obviously. So I'd tend to think either Marks gluing sugestion, or using a mesh bag would be well suited. It would also depend on whether one wanted them permenently afixed to the boat, or removable and changable. Off hand, I'd go for the latter. Especially if the boat was rigged with the pulley system someone mentioned.

> How do you secure the bottles so they don't rattle around or
> wander out of the hatches every time you open them?

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Kayak floats
Peter S. -- 5/29/1998, 8:49 pm
Re: Kayak floats
Joseph Veneski -- 6/2/1998, 10:19 am
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Mark Kanzler -- 6/2/1998, 3:23 pm
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NPenney -- 6/1/1998, 7:46 am
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Wynne Eden -- 6/1/1998, 10:05 am
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NPenney -- 6/1/1998, 10:53 am
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Mark Kanzler -- 6/1/1998, 11:22 am
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NPenney -- 6/1/1998, 1:54 pm
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Dave Caudill -- 6/1/1998, 6:21 pm
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NPenney -- 6/2/1998, 6:59 am
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Mark Kanzler -- 6/1/1998, 3:31 pm
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NPenney -- 6/2/1998, 7:01 am
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Mark Kanzler -- 6/1/1998, 10:44 am
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Nick Schade -- 5/31/1998, 3:57 pm
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Mark Bodnar -- 5/30/1998, 10:03 pm
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Mark Kanzler -- 5/31/1998, 4:18 pm
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L.C. -- 5/31/1998, 7:22 am
Re: Kayak floats - Foam vs Bags
Mark Bodnar -- 6/2/1998, 10:39 pm
Re: Kayak floats - Foam vs Bags
NPenney -- 6/5/1998, 8:11 am
Re: Kayak floats - Foam vs Bags
Rick C. -- 6/4/1998, 4:06 pm
Re: Kayak floats - Foam vs Bags
Mark Kanzler -- 6/3/1998, 11:02 am
Re: Kayak floats - Foam vs Bags
Mike Spence -- 6/3/1998, 11:52 am
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Wes Boyd -- 5/31/1998, 9:10 pm
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Ron Wagener -- 5/30/1998, 10:08 am
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Dave -- 5/29/1998, 11:28 pm
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Robert -- 5/30/1998, 8:47 am
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Paul Jacobson -- 5/30/1998, 8:24 pm
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Wes Boyd -- 5/30/1998, 10:54 pm
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Mark Kanzler -- 5/31/1998, 4:11 pm
Re: Kayak floats
Paul Jacobson -- 5/31/1998, 2:15 am