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Re: Off Topic: towing kayak behind powered boat
By:Mike Savage
Date: 9/23/2009, 1:58 pm
In Response To: Off Topic: towing kayak behind powered boat (John Enyart)

: a bit off topic, but does anyone have experience, good or bad, with towing a
: kayak or multiple kayaks behind a fishing or houseboat which could serve
: as a mothership? I searched the archives - "towing kayak" and
: didn't come up with anything.

Hi John,

I don't think it's a good idea. It's like towing a dinghy, if you go too fast, you sink the dinghy by the stern when it exceeds 'hull-speed'. Same would happen with kayaks.
It would be better to take the kayaks on deck.

You could make up a set of davitts for the side of the mothership and carry the kayaks there, like lifeboats. :)

Mike Savage
South West Cork

Messages In This Thread

Off Topic: towing kayak behind powered boat
John Enyart -- 9/23/2009, 12:47 pm
Re: Off Topic: towing kayak behind powered boat
John Enyart -- 9/26/2009, 4:51 am
Why not raft them instead?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 9/27/2009, 4:11 pm
Re: Off Topic: towing kayak behind powered boat
Andy Waddington -- 9/24/2009, 7:32 am
Tow low or Go slow
mike allen -- 9/24/2009, 2:24 pm
Re: Tow low or Go slow *Pic*
Joe Greenley -- 9/25/2009, 2:12 am
Re: Tow low or Go slow
Robert N Pruden -- 9/25/2009, 11:18 pm
Re: Tow low or Go slow *LINK* *Pic*
Joe Greenley -- 9/28/2009, 10:27 pm
Re: Tow low or Go slow
Bill Hamm -- 9/26/2009, 12:52 am
Re: Tow low or Go slow
Bill Hamm -- 9/24/2009, 7:09 pm
Re: Tow low or Go slow
Bill Hamm -- 9/24/2009, 7:10 pm
Re: Off Topic: towing kayak behind powered boat
John Enyart -- 9/24/2009, 8:02 am
Re: Off Topic: towing kayak behind powered boat
John Enyart -- 9/24/2009, 6:16 am
Re: Off Topic: towing kayak behind powered boat
mike allen -- 9/23/2009, 2:54 pm
Re: Off Topic: towing kayak behind powered boat
Bill Hamm -- 9/23/2009, 2:45 pm
Re: Off Topic: towing kayak behind powered boat
Mike Savage -- 9/23/2009, 1:58 pm