How To Modify Your Kayak To Personalize It To Your Needs
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Most people who buy a kayak, purchase a "bare boat", that is, a boat that is little more than a shell and an uncomfortable seat.
This book gives a number of ways to modify that "bare boat" by adding bulkheads and hatches, deck-lines, bungie cords and many orther items that are normally found on the high-end boats to enable the owner to take their boat camping or touring.
You don't need to be an engineer or mechanic to accomplish this, just understand the basics of househiold tools.
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How To Modify Your Kayak To Personalize It To Your Needs - Richard Johnson
HOW TO MODIFY YOUR KAYAK
By Rick Johnson
Published by Richard Johnson (Desert Dragon Productions) at Smashwords.
Copyright May 2012 Richard Johnson
ISBN 9781476232775
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PHOTO CREDITS
The cover photo is me going through Dinosaur Caves off the coast of California. The photo in the Bio page at the end of the book is me stationed in Saudi Arabia. All other photos and drawings are by me. Obviously, I am not a professional photographer or artist.
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by: vk1nf : Merci, Rik: DL is much appreciated - looks very interesting. Love making kayaks, canoes, paddles and doing mods some neat ideas in your book...
by: bartc: Nice job! Please do upload others. Enjoyable and useful read. Thanks!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Safety
Definitions
Attachment Rings
Velcro Deck Compass Mount
Canoe Tie-Down Loops
Deck Bungie
Bulkhead Vent
Heel Pads
Drag plate
Deckline
ID Written on Your Boat
Pad-Eyes
Paddle Holder
Reflective Tape
White paddle Blades
Cargo Net
Anchor Line Rig
Camera Mount
Hood Loops
Deck Bag
Adding Hatches and Bulkheads
Deck Line Beads
About the Author
Books in the Series
INTRODUCTION
Kayaking is not a cheap sport.
If you want to go hiking, you simply grab your kids school backpack, toss in some sandwiches and a couple bottles of water and after locating some comfortable walking shoes, you take off. Later, if you find you enjoy the sport, you begin to invest in your own backpack, water-filter and good hiking shoes, but anyone can go hiking with whatever they find around the house.
Kayaking is not like that. First of all, you must BUY a kayak! And a decent kayak will run you between $800-$1200 new, $200-1200 used. Ok, I know you can buy a cheap boat at the mass outlet stores for $300 but that’s like buying a clunker at Honest Moe’s Used Car lot. All auto warranted for 30 feet or 30 minutes!
I said a decent boat made by Wilderness Systems, Perception, Old Town, Ocean kayak and other major brand companies. Remember, you will be trusting your life to this boat. And unlike your clunker (a breakdown on the road simply means you coast to the side and call AAA) a clunker on the water means you try to swim a few miles in freezing cold water and hope the shore is safe and climbable.
THEN, after you buy that boat, there is the $150 for a PFD and another $100 for a paddle so you are out a grand even before you get wet!
I am going to assume that you have decided to purchase a boat but money is tight. After all, you probably downloaded this e-book because it was free! Right! Unless you are the 101st person to do that and so was charged a nominal fee, that it! Ka-ching!
So if you bought a boat, a decent boat, it is probably a bare boat! That means it is a hull, a seat of some sort and not much else. And for a day trip, this is fine. You drive to the lake, head out for a few hours and head back to go home. Your lunch is in a, hopefully, waterproof container, you have a couple bottles of water and you enjoy yourself! Wonderful! Most people who paddle are just like that! People who buy a bare-boat and go out for a few hours once or twice a year. I do that all the time myself.
BUT! What if you want more! What is you want to go … camping! Park at the lot, load your gear and head across the lake to an isolated spot where you can strip naked and frolic and camp without being bothered by all those boom-boxes at the campgrounds! What if you want to go on multi-day extended trips down a river! What if you just want to carry more than a sandwich and water-bottle. Maybe a first-aid kit? Maybe a cell-phone that you want to keep dry? Or as Igor, a friend from Siberia did, his sat-phone with internet.
This book is for you! Within these electrons are a number of methods that your home-crafter can do to install hatches, bungie and many of the items you can only find on the fully decked-out touring boats, but, at a fraction of the cost.
By the Way,