: My newly built Gentry Disko Bay has next-to-no freeboard in the aft
: - starting at the midway point of the cockpit. The poly skin has
: four good coats of oil paint and you can't make out any weave
: patterns. The fabic at the cockpit coaming is stapled tight to a
: baseplate. A good seal of Marine Goop is sandwiched in between
: the coaming and the plate. The coaming is screwed down bar tight
: to the coaming with no chance of leaking. I just bought a new
: Seals Shocker sprayskirt (my old Shocker was Aquaseal-ed to
: death and was leaking) that is very snug to my stomach and and
: fits the coaming tightly. I also have a tight tunnel on my
: drysuit.

: YET - after an hour of rolling and playing in the waves, I had
: about 3/4" of water sitting in the bottom of the boat -
: enough to affect stability in the waves!!

: My question is how much water do others get in their boats -
: especially those paddling "submarines" like mine? I do
: pretty much all my turning with aggressive edging (a technique
: that works incredibly well with my Point Bennett) so my cockpit
: is pretty much continuously underwater. Paddling in 3 ft waves
: just puts it that much more under water. With each strong paddle
: stroke the aft deck/rear coaming gets pushed to water level.

: I'm going to make some small adjustments to my pump to allow it to
: get down between the seat slats but I'm curious if there's
: something I can do to reduce the amount of water getting into
: the boat OR is this just the norm and I'll have to live with?

: Cheers,
: Sean

Getting wet is part of kayaking, inside and out :)

Carry a pump.

Bill H.