jason

Jason, I have the old rubber hatch covers from the Shadow that you are welcome to.

I am not sure when I will be down in MA next, I am now living in ME. If your willing to ship them can you call me 660-960-0070 or drop me an e-mail jason at kates D.T org we can figure out the cost and how I can get you a check or Paypal.

Thanks -Jason

I now need hatch covers ASAP. :-) Please let me know if the group buy will be on if not I will see if I can track down the Kayajaksport version that are made for Valley boats.

It looks like I should be in the market for hatch covers for the Q boat.

Hello

I am a new NSPN member with a question that Google isn't answering to my satisfaction.

After a summer of renting, I bought my very own kayak (WS Zephyr 15.5).

I am also a renter of housing, and luckily have basement space to store it. But what I don't have is a hose that can reach the driveway/street! (spigot all the way around on the other side of the building -- I'd need a looong hose)

How important is it to rinse a plastic kayak after every (salty) use? Can i just go through a carwash? Or any other tips?

Seems like a silly thing, I know...!

Hope to meet some of you soon. Sadly I'm too beginner for your paddles I think, but I'm taking lessons!

JL

Hello

I am a new NSPN member with a question that Google isn't answering to my satisfaction.

After a summer of renting, I bought my very own kayak (WS Zephyr 15.5).

I am also a renter of housing, and luckily have basement space to store it. But what I don't have is a hose that can reach the driveway/street! (spigot all the way around on the other side of the building -- I'd need a looong hose)

How important is it to rinse a plastic kayak after every (salty) use? Can i just go through a carwash? Or any other tips?

Seems like a silly thing, I know...!

Hope to meet some of you soon. Sadly I'm too beginner for your paddles I think, but I'm taking lessons!

JL

I wouldn't worry about washing it too much.

We all have had bad days of one sort or another.

Great job.

I rather work

Ha Ha. Heel Hook Paddle Float Self Rescue.

This looks like fun and like much less of a PIB:

Ha Ha. Heel Hook Paddle Float Self Rescue.

Wow that looks like a lot of work.

I am thinking of an after work paddle Tuesday night if anybody is interested.

Another shark rescue

I have the pager, another nice weekend where I can't paddle.

I have taken one 3 day swift water rescue class so far. I am looking to take another one this spring. Swift wate rescue classes are a ton of fun and really help build/reenforce the skills that we should have on the water.

I was shocked that the rescue wasn't done. I can't get over that someone spent the time to video it but not to drop the camera and help him. It looks like his friends don't have the proper training. It's a great what not to do video. I am very surprised that they let the video see the light of day.

I love my KS hatch coverts. If I had valey ones I would have to join the group buy.

I still can't get over that they didn't attach to him and get him out. Just letting him slide though the under cut is really bad. That's why rescue PFD's have shoulder straps that one can attach to.

Sounds like a great trip!

Sounds like a great trip!

I was wondering if anybody has any interest in an after work paddle?

I look forward to part two! :-)

Ssssh, everyone: I think someone got up too early this morning...let her sleep some more...

She is attempting to get her post count up, not much more until she will hit the 1K mark.

I should be able to make it.

We can delete your ID and your posts will be owned by a guest user.

Your posts can't be deleted in mass as that would leave the message board with a swiss cheese effect in many of the threads.

If you are a Maine Island Trail Association member, keep your eye out for the 2015 MITA guide book. Ours just showed up in the mail, and there are seven more day-access and camping locations added to the trail this year, two of which are privately owned. Along with providing access to public lands, MITA works very hard with private land owners to open their property up to the public via MITA membership with the understanding that their property will be respected and cared for, so please remember to observe the rules for each location, practice Leave No Trace, follow other MITA guidelines, and refrain from discussing these private locations publicly, such as in trip postings or trip reports.

If you are a paid member of NSPN, you can get a discounted membership to MITA by following the instructions posted here.

Nice! Someone had told me that the book was moving to electronic only.

On a side note the current IOS application doesn't fully work with IOS 8.0 or greater (you can't enter your App Passcode etc). They will be releasing a new version of the MITA application next month that will fix the issue.

I don't know if we could ever get 500 kayakers together at once on the east coast for any cause. It was very colorful.

http://www.canoekayak.com/news/photos-of-seattles-kayak-protesters/

I find that the little one that Rob picked are much better than the old school orange ones. The orange ones based on an incandescent bulb, if you leave standard AA non-lithium batteries in them they tended to corrode and fail after just a couple of seasons. The one Rob picked is LED based, are brighter have a very long run time. For my $0.02 would go with current technology, it's smaller (less likely to get hung up on things in rescues) and works much better.

The gaskets on the ones I received were your normal O rings just like the ones in the orange AA based strobes.

The ones I picked up last year have a more secure clip than the picture in his link, hopefully the picture is wrong and that they didn't change the mount.

Correction I based my post was comparing the gardian light to the Arc C-Light: https://www.acrartex.com/products/catalog/rescue-and-distress-lights/c-light-with-c-clip/#sthash.s1bhkwPs.dpbs

I purchased a couple of them over the years, the most recent one is dead and no longer attached to my pfd. It seems that it's not a proper strobe, I treated it like it was one, reserving it for emergency use thus my references to it in the post.

By <strobe> light, do you mean for emergency purposes -- or simply for other kayakers to be able to see you in the dark?

If the latter, I have one or two of those little things you have featured in your attachment; but they are NOT going to be of any use to you (or the USCG), if someone is really searching for you in the dark. Much rather go to one of the big boating shops and buy a proper rescue strobe -- usually in orange plastic, having proper, stout rubber gasket and putting out <real>, bright white light.

My 0.02...

I find that the little one that Rob picked are much better than the old school orange ones. The orange ones based on an incandescent bulb, if you leave standard AA non-lithium batteries in them they tended to corrode and fail after just a couple of seasons. The one Rob picked is LED based, are brighter have a very long run time. For my $0.02 would go with current technology, it's smaller (less likely to get hung up on things in rescues) and works much better.

The gaskets on the ones I received were your normal O rings just like the ones in the orange AA based strobes.

The ones I picked up last year have a more secure clip than the picture in his link, hopefully the picture is wrong and that they didn't change the mount.