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sponsons really work! (BS)
Oci-One Kanubi wrote:
(William R. Watt) typed (perhaps without thinking?): no BS. I put sponsons on a 7.5 ft sailboat. Keep them above the waterline where they don't add to hull resistance through the water. Without teh sponsons I'd never get back into the boat after a cpasize. Craig Smerda ) writes: ....oooh Timmy's back! Wheeeee! Just as fall set's in, the rat's try getting back into the barn. Well good luck getting rid of the little critter again. Ditto Mary's experience, sort of. I can remember, when I was in first or second grade, my dad and me righting a capsized Penguin-class dinghy (11'5"). It does depend a lot on the design of the boat. Boats like the Sunfish are trivial to get back on since they hardly take on any water when capsized. The small sailing dinghies I've used are only a little harder, but they all had flotation installed under the seats on the sides of the cockpit which acted as internal sponsons when swamped. OTOH, someone had converted an old rowboat for sailing which only had a little flotation - mainly in the bow and stern. When swamped it had barely enough stability to stay upright by itself and promptly rolled over if anyone tried to get back in. Additional sponsons would have been useful with that design. 'Course, my dad was a sailor; it's obvious that you ain't. On the other hand, no-one in this forum, to my knowlege, has ever said that it is unreasonable to choose sponsons as part of yer emergency kit; we don't say sponsons are utterly worthless, we say that mandating their usage is foolish and that the safety and rescue programs that the lunatic rants against are a more effective way to save lives. ... Whereas, under a controlled training program, the degree of exposure is increased only gradually, concomitantly with the increase in the skill and experience needed to deal with the inevitable problems. The first seakayaking self-rescue class I took involved training in the use of both paddle-floats and inflatable sponsons. My impression is that sponsons are included less frequently these days, probably largely as a result of Tim's rather acerbic 'sales technique'. It's unfortunate since I do believe there are situations in seakayaking where sponsons are a good device to have available. |
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