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Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
By:Sean D
Date: 9/28/2011, 7:35 am
In Response To: Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye" (Bill Hamm)

: If you learn to sit up straight when you're paddling, you don't
: need a back band :)

: Bill H.

Hear. Hear

I just took the back support (foam pillar) out of my Point Bennett because I found I was leaning on it too much and the pressure points were starting to irritate me. In my plastic boat (Baffin by Boreal Design) I let the back band go so slack that I could not feel it. At first I had it too tight and, again I was getting pain from the pressure.

There's a lot to be said for sitting up straight. If I want to slouch a bit, i.e., recline, I simply lean back against the cockpit coaming.

Sean

Messages In This Thread

Launching: Petrel "Fisheye" *PIC*
Rick Jensen -- 9/26/2011, 9:29 pm
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye" *NM* *PIC*
Rick Jensen -- 9/26/2011, 9:38 pm
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye" *PIC*
Rick Jensen -- 9/26/2011, 9:49 pm
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
dave g -- 9/26/2011, 9:51 pm
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Bill Hamm -- 9/27/2011, 1:50 am
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Bob Johns -- 9/27/2011, 4:11 am
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
jim meinecke -- 9/27/2011, 5:16 pm
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 9/27/2011, 4:15 am
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Mike Bielski -- 9/27/2011, 8:47 am
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Bryan Hansel -- 9/27/2011, 10:41 am
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Bill Hamm -- 9/28/2011, 2:50 am
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Sean D -- 9/28/2011, 7:35 am
Re: Launching: Petrel "Fisheye"
Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2011, 2:08 am