I like my Stearns one person kayak except for drying it out. I
sometimes use it it salt water from a sandy beach. Any suggestions on
how to dry it out in a reasonable time? It is warm and humid here and
I don't care for mildew, etc.
Thanks.
Don

Don Lee wrote:
I like my Stearns one person kayak except for drying it out. I
sometimes use it it salt water from a sandy beach. Any suggestions on
how to dry it out in a reasonable time? It is warm and humid here and
I don't care for mildew, etc.

Bring it into an air conditioned office building (over a weekend?)
and maybe unzip the floor compartment. That's what I do with my
AIRE boats during rainy season (winter here in California).

On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:13:55 -0000, Bill Tuthill
wrote:

Don Lee wrote:
I like my Stearns one person kayak except for drying it out. I
sometimes use it it salt water from a sandy beach. Any suggestions on
how to dry it out in a reasonable time? It is warm and humid here and
I don't care for mildew, etc.

Yup let it sit in the sun for 5 days, and put up with last years sand!
(I have one - can you tell?)

deflate it more than 1/2 way, and prop it up upside down over one or
two poles/posts/etc (or put it on top of a picnic table and cooler,
etc) so you can hose out the insides by spraying up underneath it. let
drip dry. the higher you prop it, the further into the creases you can
spray at the sand.

following that, i've also hung it from the bow handle in my basement,
and after a day or so used a shop vac to suck the water from the stern
crease between the floor and innertubes (using one of those small
detailing nozzles).

good luck, i far prefer the (hard shell) kayak i just built