outfitting with a dagger saddle
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:02 pm
Well the boat of nine lives (and nine welds) is finally on its way to the recycling. Too broke to even think of selling.
The new boat, a dagger nomad 8.5 is waiting for me to pick it up and I am thinking ahead to installing the dagger saddle from the dead boat (getting that saddle was really the only reason I bought that pitoned, oilcan-ed, P.O.S. with no rear pillar in the first place).
I have 2 concerns the first specific to the Dagger outfitting in the nomad, the second regarding the saddle, please comment on components you are familiar with:
-The dagger pillar in the bow of the boat is plastic. With foam pillars I did not hesitate to slide the saddle under, slotting the foam into the saddle as it is designed to be. I am afraid the plastic pillar is rigid enough that doing this might put stress on the hull. my first thought was to shave some off the bottom of the pillar with a grinder (this might make selling it latter as a kayak harder) and maybe run a bolt through the pillar and saddle for good measure.
-The last 2 conversions I have had both oil can-ed pretty bad. not sure how to prevent this or if it is even a c1 specific problem. I think it is likely because there is no stiffener that runs the length of the hull (attaching the dagger saddle in the stern seamed tricky so I left it loose). I was thinking of adding an aluminum piece like in this article http://cboats.net/outfitting/fencerail.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Thoughts?
John
The new boat, a dagger nomad 8.5 is waiting for me to pick it up and I am thinking ahead to installing the dagger saddle from the dead boat (getting that saddle was really the only reason I bought that pitoned, oilcan-ed, P.O.S. with no rear pillar in the first place).
I have 2 concerns the first specific to the Dagger outfitting in the nomad, the second regarding the saddle, please comment on components you are familiar with:
-The dagger pillar in the bow of the boat is plastic. With foam pillars I did not hesitate to slide the saddle under, slotting the foam into the saddle as it is designed to be. I am afraid the plastic pillar is rigid enough that doing this might put stress on the hull. my first thought was to shave some off the bottom of the pillar with a grinder (this might make selling it latter as a kayak harder) and maybe run a bolt through the pillar and saddle for good measure.
-The last 2 conversions I have had both oil can-ed pretty bad. not sure how to prevent this or if it is even a c1 specific problem. I think it is likely because there is no stiffener that runs the length of the hull (attaching the dagger saddle in the stern seamed tricky so I left it loose). I was thinking of adding an aluminum piece like in this article http://cboats.net/outfitting/fencerail.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Thoughts?
John