Barbara Ryan

JUST CANCELED my dentist appt., first things first, and would love to come if there is still room!

Great idea! Darn dentist appt. Have as much fun as you can without me. ?

Awesome Ben! Not sure if I will be able to join for overnights by then (caretaking recovering hubby) but will hope.

I so need to paddle! This will be perfect. Thanks Joe!

Haha! I agree Ed. It takes a village and so glad we have this forum and experienced and creative friends here to brainstorm with.

True!! Not much room for anything but THAT is a GOOD IDEA TOO Nancy! Thanks!

Sounds like a wise decision Jim. Thanks for dreaming this up. It was a great idea and fun to Imagine.

I will need to do some reorganizing but will hopefully work. Conditions sound nice! Thanks Jim.

Thanks so much Janet! I really appreciate your offer. I don't really need more foam as I do have about 9" of custom fitted foam pads in my boat thanks to another NSPN friend. I do much prefer paddling with the foam to the foot pegs now. The issue is that to fit all my camping gear in I am taking out all of the foam. Your idea of having the wood on the foam is terrific. I could try to use just a board (about 17" wide from rail to rail) maybe. AM I missing something about your idea here?

Hmmmm, all good ideas. This boat is very low volume so with the foot pegs in not much will fit between- and I plan to have my tent and sleeping bag ahead of my feet in dry bags. Having the bulkhead moved is a good idea however not enough time before my next little trip this week. The boat is 20 yrs old so I think I will save that for when I have one custom made. ?. I've been measuring and sawing PVC pipe today to try to get a strong bar the right length, hoping the edge will actually catch in the grooves of the Yakima rails that are there. Jim's idea of a shorter screw sounds good too. I wasn't able to get the screw out yet- it is really stuck- so trying these other ideas first. I will have to be sure whatever I do- it stays waterproof. ALSO thinking that if one were to somehow just saw off the first 3 or 4" of the top or bottom of the railing, to get ahead of the screw, you could just slip the base of the peg right in and slide it on back to where you want it. Don't need those first 4" of the railings anyway. But, have to be sure of no jagged edges of course. A bar across or shorter screw sound good right now. This is a grand experiment as I thought the Avocet was too small to camp out of but I had plenty of room in the Cetus last week for the 3 day trip- I think for 2 nights I'm going to give it a try. Thanks for your creative and helpful ideas friends!

I am searching the internet for foot peg assemblies where the foot pegs are easily removable with no luck so far. I am happy with my foam pads but I am removing them to add another foot + of room in my cockpit for gear (short legs here) and then with camp all set up- when I want to go exploring in my unloaded boat- I am finding it hard to find something to take the place of the gear against the bulkhead in my cockpit to brace my feet against. I am thinking that maybe I need to find a big air bladder but goodness- if they made foot peg assemblies with easily removable pegs how great that would be! I have the rails in my Avocet LV that I am going to try using for camping this week- but I have to remove the first screw on each rail to slide the pegs back into the groove since the length of the screws makes it so that they intrude into the channel making inserting the foot peg sliding base, impossible. I wonder if you can somehow saw off the extra length of the screws that are in the way making sliding the pegs in and out, easy. ? Any ideas? Thanks friends!

Hi Friends! I took your advice- and all went well! Thanks so much! I love this group!

GREAT FEEDBACK Ed and Gary! All makes sense. Thanks so much!

Is there a Part 2 yet Gary? I'm not seeing it . I'm packing my "New" to me Cetus LV for a 3 nite trip and wondering where is best for my 2 heavy, 7 L water bags. I have room in front of my feet in the cockpit taking the foam pads out. Maybe one behind my seat (and one down by the bow bulkhead. Food could fit in there too. There is at least a foot from my feet to the bulkhead. Then put the last/largest foam pad back in as. "lid" in case I swim- and to put my feet against. ? Any suggestions appreciated.

Sounds perfect! Would love to join you but not able to unfortunately.

I love your WLPs wherever I find them (thanks!) and signed up for this but find that I need to stay closer to home on Wed. so will have to bow out. Have a great time exploring the "in-between" zone!

Yeah. I'm not able to join after all. Hopefully I will see you on the water soonish.

That sounds like a lovey paddle. I will look at the map. I will know if I am free to join later in the week if that's OK. Ms Dew- have we paddled together? I am trying to figure who you are? ?

I'm interested too. Skills session tomorrow so I'll be ready for anything. Thanks Jim.

I'm interested in any paddle! ?

Having not sea paddled (real paddling ? since mid May, I'm gonna bow out too and will work on my skills and endurance Saturday to hopefully join you on your next "longish" paddle. Have fun!

I’m in too!! Thanks Prudence.

I plan to be there! Thanks Sue!

Sounds good! Thanks Sue.

This is SO COOL!!!! Wonderful photos. I look forward to checking it out with you another time. Any idea whose bones? Seal?