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Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
By:Scott Fitzgerrell
Date: 12/22/2012, 12:45 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island (Jay Babina)

Hmmmm....

This is a very good thread for me to read at this juncture, as I'm set to order OI plans this winter. I almost always have to launch by wading in the water, due to rocky shores at Tahoe and on the CA coast--and that means a keyhole cockpit (plant butt, swing legs in). So is there a good way to make sure the keyhole cockpit places your knees where they'd be in an ocean cockpit? I can figure this out, I suppose, but always appreciate the wide/deep experience on this board, and I think the OI may be the most-built design in the group. I'll bet someone has faced this issue and solved it by now.

Merry Christmas, by the way. This board is the present that keeps on giving.

--Scott

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
James -- 12/21/2012, 8:58 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Sean Dawe -- 12/21/2012, 9:05 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
James -- 12/21/2012, 10:00 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Jay Babina -- 12/22/2012, 9:06 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Etienne Muller -- 12/22/2012, 10:42 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Bill Hamm -- 12/27/2012, 12:56 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 12/22/2012, 12:45 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Paul Sylvester -- 12/22/2012, 8:25 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island *PIC*
Oliver -- 12/22/2012, 8:37 am
Re: Strip: Raising --Off Topic??
Paul Sylvester -- 12/22/2012, 8:48 am
Re: Strip: Raising --Off Topic??
Oliver -- 12/22/2012, 10:53 am
Re: Strip: Raising --Off Topic??
dave mckinney -- 12/22/2012, 9:21 pm
Re: Strip: Raising --Off Topic??
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 12/23/2012, 10:59 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Robert Horstmann -- 12/31/2012, 11:49 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Howie -- 1/11/2013, 10:14 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
John Abercrombie -- 1/11/2013, 11:53 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Bill Hamm -- 1/11/2013, 1:36 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Howie -- 1/11/2013, 2:35 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Bill Hamm -- 1/13/2013, 1:48 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Howie -- 1/13/2013, 3:38 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
John Abercrombie -- 1/13/2013, 5:36 pm
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
dave mckinney -- 1/11/2013, 7:54 pm
Jay: offer design options for sale?
Howie -- 1/13/2013, 3:27 pm
Re: Jay: offer design options for sale?
Jay Babina -- 1/18/2013, 9:09 am
Re: Strip: Raising the deck of an Outer Island
Dennis -- 12/23/2012, 9:27 am