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Re: Strip: Drinking water access
By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 12/16/2017, 6:15 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Drinking water access (Dan Caouette (CSCWC))

Here's what Joe Greenley does at Redfish Kayak (http://www.redfishkayak.com/hydration.htm). Just run the hose up through the deck through a rubber grommet.

Is that the bite valve on the end of the tube?
To take a drink you need to pull the tube up to your mouth?
(And afterward, feed it back through the deck lest the bite valve drag in the water?)

At some point it would be just as quick to grab a water bottle off the deck, I think. With a Tributary (bladder on the back of the PFD), and the hose clipped to the shoulder strap of the PFD, you can stuff the bite valve into your mouth and only miss one paddle stroke. When you have enough liquid, just spit out the bite valve and it will hang in front of you till you need it again.
The whole point is to avoid the 'I have to stop to take a drink' thing, and then having to catch up with your friends again. Or if you are racing....

The water is slightly harder to suck up from below deck but there are fewer wet exit issues.

I don't follow the reasoning about wet exit issues, sorry. Do you mean because the hose isn't connected to the PFD?

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Randy -- 12/15/2017, 5:36 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 12/15/2017, 5:43 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 12/15/2017, 5:56 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 12/15/2017, 5:58 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 12/15/2017, 6:01 pm
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Scott Innes -- 12/15/2017, 6:02 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 12/15/2017, 6:21 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 12/15/2017, 7:21 pm
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Randy -- 12/16/2017, 7:56 am
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Howie II -- 12/16/2017, 5:28 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 12/16/2017, 6:04 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 12/16/2017, 6:22 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 12/16/2017, 5:30 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 12/16/2017, 6:15 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 12/17/2017, 7:31 am
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Randy -- 12/16/2017, 7:20 pm
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John Urschel -- 12/17/2017, 8:33 am
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Randy -- 12/17/2017, 11:02 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 12/17/2017, 2:42 pm
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Kirk Fredericks -- 2/11/2018, 2:15 pm
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Brian Nystrom -- 2/13/2018, 7:48 am
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Kirk Fredericks -- 2/13/2018, 10:25 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 2/13/2018, 12:19 pm
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