On Feb 4, 6:42 am, Steve Cramer wrote:
Drew Dalgleish wrote:
On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:55:17 -0500, Steve Cramer
wrote:

riverman wrote:
Bouyancy chambers...??
grin
Yeah, see unlike foam core plastic, composites (fiberglass, Kevlar,
carbon fiber) don't float very well. If you don't want your Wildfire to
go to the bottom if you flip it, you build a chamber that holds a couple
of gallons of air into the bow and stern. This means that if you had
another boat that was a foot shorter and six inches narrower, it
wouldn't fit inside.

Looks like this:http://www.savvypaddler.com/Images/buoychamber.JPG.
Yeah, i know the boat is dirty.

Steve

I think he was just playing net nanny and picking up on my lack of
spelling skills.

Oh, maybe so. I guess that means my spelling as as bad as yours, and i
probably underestimated riverman. Oops.



Actually, I totally missed the spelling gaffe, and I never play
netnanny on those anyway.

For expedition boating, especially commercially, glass, carbon fiber
and kevlar boats are too expensive and fragile. ABS is by far the most
predominant hull material, and of course does not need buoyancy
chambers.

However, in addition to the top of the line composite boats, float
chambers are also a hallmark of those bottom of the line summer camp
fiberflass models. I was actually underestimating you, Drew, and
thought your experience was limited to those old beaters, and
Colemans.

--riverman