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Re: Strip: What's the deal with bulkheads?
By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 10/27/2016, 10:33 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: What's the deal with bulkheads? (Mike Bielski)

Essential for safety. Your kayak needs flotation unless you're never going to paddle in water deeper than you can stand in. If you don't have bulkheads you need float bags to displace water. I am not the only person who puts float bags in their watertight compartments when there is nothing in them as an added layer of protection. Better to have them and not need them than the opposite.

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I agree completely.

BTW, it's not easy finding 'full size' flotation (air) bags that suit a sea kayak - most I see online are designed to fit river (whitewater) boats and are too small for most sea kayaks.
For folks who are looking for suitable bags, one source is Kayak Academy-George Gronseth's school & store- near Seattle.
(Mariner kayaks produced in Seattle never had front bulkheads so all of them needed air bags, with the result that there is still demand for the bags as replacements. Some - not all- folks in the SOF crowd are fitting air bags, too.)
They can also be DIYed with a bit of effort.
Does anybody know of other sources for good large kayak-shaped air bags?

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Strip: What's the deal with bulkheads?
Steve Solomon -- 10/27/2016, 4:39 pm
Re: Strip: What's the deal with bulkheads?
Charles Robinson -- 10/27/2016, 4:50 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/27/2016, 5:07 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 10/27/2016, 6:05 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 10/27/2016, 6:09 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 10/27/2016, 6:49 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/27/2016, 8:37 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/27/2016, 8:24 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 10/27/2016, 8:59 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/27/2016, 9:24 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/27/2016, 9:28 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 10/27/2016, 10:10 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/27/2016, 10:20 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/28/2016, 12:37 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/28/2016, 12:35 am
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Thomas Duncan -- 10/28/2016, 12:27 pm
Re: Strip: What's the deal with bulkheads? *PIC*
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 10/28/2016, 1:26 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 10/28/2016, 4:31 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/28/2016, 5:23 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 10/28/2016, 9:37 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/29/2016, 1:06 am
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Etienne Muller -- 10/27/2016, 6:07 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 10/27/2016, 6:45 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/27/2016, 8:12 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 10/27/2016, 9:28 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/27/2016, 9:34 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/27/2016, 10:16 pm
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Paul D -- 10/27/2016, 8:35 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 10/27/2016, 10:16 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/27/2016, 10:33 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 10/27/2016, 10:51 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/27/2016, 11:15 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 10/27/2016, 11:26 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 10/28/2016, 9:19 am
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Steve Solomon -- 10/28/2016, 10:27 am
Re: Strip: What's the deal with bulkheads? *PIC*
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 10/28/2016, 11:07 am
Re: Strip: What's the deal with bulkheads?
Steve Solomon -- 10/28/2016, 1:41 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/29/2016, 1:10 am
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Mike Bielski -- 10/27/2016, 11:11 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/28/2016, 1:01 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/28/2016, 12:41 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/27/2016, 8:29 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 10/28/2016, 6:55 am
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Thomas Duncan -- 10/28/2016, 9:20 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/28/2016, 12:39 am
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Paul Sylvester -- 10/29/2016, 6:22 am
Re: Strip: What's the deal with bulkheads? *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 10/30/2016, 7:43 am
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Paul D -- 10/31/2016, 12:48 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 10/31/2016, 3:09 pm