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Topic: Realistic immersion gear advice (waders vs wetsuit vs drysuit)  (Read 9982 times)

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SteveS doesn't kayak anymore

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All that shit onboard, but no radio or bilge pump? :smt011

I had same thought.  Cue grumpy old fart rant....tf IS all that crap?  Arms and stuff poking out all over the place. Looks like a bad Sci fi movie alien spaceship


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Alright, I'm gonna bring up an idea again that I had years ago. CO2 hooked to a quick release pin mechanism, hooked to a made to fit bladder. Two of these set fore and aft inside the hull with a through hull string release. Pull the string, triggers the pin that punctures the CO2, inflates the bladder(s), ejects water from inside the hull, you limp back without submarining.
I don't have the time or resources to make something like this, but seems easy enough for someone with time on their hands and more brains between their ears than I have.

What's the advantage over stuffing a half dozen pool noodles in your hull and just leaving them there from day 1?
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Alright, I'm gonna bring up an idea again that I had years ago. CO2 hooked to a quick release pin mechanism, hooked to a made to fit bladder. Two of these set fore and aft inside the hull with a through hull string release. Pull the string, triggers the pin that punctures the CO2, inflates the bladder(s), ejects water from inside the hull, you limp back without submarining.
I don't have the time or resources to make something like this, but seems easy enough for someone with time on their hands and more brains between their ears than I have.

What's the advantage over stuffing a half dozen pool noodles in your hull and just leaving them there from day 1?
Having usable hull space I guess. If the bladder was banded and out of the way, attached to the mechanism which would be screwed (I guess) to the hull, you'd have the space and less weight. But whatever floats your boat I guess.


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You should delete that post and get a patent going

Although I think once you make an idea public it’s no longer patentable
If you were referring to my idea, I'd be happy if someone took it and ran with it. I honestly don't have the time for something like that. If it helped out our community I'd be happy.