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bathtuboy
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Pinning

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My experience has been that a heavily rockered boat with lots of buoyancy like the prelude is almost impossible to pin, but I would never recommend a bulkhead and strap system to anybody. Any such system should be an informed decision by the paddler themselves.
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Larry Horne
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Post by Larry Horne »

My experience has been that a heavily rockered boat with lots of buoyancy like the prelude is almost impossible to pin, but I would never recommend a bulkhead and strap system to anybody. Any such system should be an informed decision by the paddler themselves.
Cool! ....so an open canoe can't get pinned against a tree? or stuffed into a rock seive?? WoW! i'm going back to open canoe asap!
Larry
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bathtuboy
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sieves etc

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Fair point, I do try and avoid these.
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