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This is true! Of course, a lot of water runs down the shaft of a GP and promptly deposits itself on your spray skirt, I found out, the hard way, that when using a GP you need to have a skirt that does not have holes in it!! Unbeknownst to me, I had a skirt that had a number of "bare" spots on the deck around the tunnel. If you held it up to the light you could see right through the neoprene. I discovered this on a rather "bumpy" paddle one day when my boat had about 1.5" water in the cockpit. I noticed that the boat felt very unstable in the swells and and did not realize the problem 'till I looked inside! Yikes!!! Afterwards, I noticed that water would run down the shaft of the paddle and pool around the deck of the skirt until it, rather quickly, dripped inside the boat. A lot of water can be shipped this way over the course of a few hours on the water!!
http://justyakkin2.blogspot.ca/2011/07/perfect-storm-of-spray-skirt-problems.html
True story!!
Sean
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JohnAbercrombie -- 2/1/2013, 1:23 pm- Re: Strip: Propper Placement of Paddle Park
Etienne Muller -- 2/1/2013, 2:27 pm
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Mike Trutwin -- 2/2/2013, 11:59 am- Re: Strip: Propper Placement of Paddle Park *PIC*
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Sean Dawe -- 2/4/2013, 9:03 am- Re: Strip: Propper Placement of Paddle Park *PIC*
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sean-dawe@hotmail.com -- 2/4/2013, 4:32 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/5/2013, 4:33 am- Re: Strip: Propper Placement of Paddle Park
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 2/5/2013, 9:25 am - Re: Strip: Propper Placement of Paddle Park
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