Nybegynnerkurs 15-20. juni

Nybegynnerkurset var stor morro - sol, såre muskler og masse padling :o)

Her er noen av bildene som ble tatt:

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Utdeling og tilpasning av utstyr før første økten...

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God mat hver kveld og grilling i hagen flere kvelder

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Jens fant seg et sted å leke

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.Deilig å slappe av i solen etter padleøktene :o)

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En glad gutt - Mich svømmer Elvebrustryket...

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... og blir fanget opp av kasteliner og tauere.

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Dagen etter svømmingen skulle stryket padles - her er Lina på vei ned
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Sjur og Thale måtte bare prøve...

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... og kom halvveis ned

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Lysaker flom 24. juni 2007

Kulpen ovenfor Griniveien er vanligvis en fin badeplass for småbarn, men i dag kunne man surfe. Legg merke til at øya med trærne i bakgrunnen er fullstendig oversvømt.

For å komme inn i bølgen var det greit å padle over det oversvømte neset i forgrunnen....

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To all (new) Dagger Mamba owners - possible design flaw?

I'm knoting (actually norwegian word) this in english as it might have interest to other Dagger Mamba owners out there.

I bought my Mamba 8.5 in mid May and took it directly to the river to test it - and it leaked like there were a major hole in it! At first inspection I did not find any holes and I suspected my new sprayskirt. After a week I was off for three days of kayaking, and did bring a skirt I knew did not leak. But still; after a single rapid of 50 - 100 m the boat was filled with maybe 1-2 L of water!

In the evening I started looking at the boat in detail and also tried to thighten all screws - quite a few of them were loose. However one of those attaching the seat to the boat (located behind the hip-pads) did look as it was forced right through the hull of the boat.....which it unfortunately was!

So I started dismounting my boat and was a bit puzzled about what I found.

This is what it should look like:

This is what it did look like:

With a little light the crack starts to show:

And looking from the inside of the hull there is clearly a major hole here:

The parts used for attaching the seat (the webbing is actually double, single end pictured):

From my point of view this mounting using the threaded washer is a major design flaw from Dagger!

I guess what have happened with my boat is that during assembling, the webbing and the washer have been mounted, the screw put in place and tightened loosely. Hovewer, if tightened too hard, when mounting the left-most washer and nut the threaded washer will move all the way up to the screw head - and cause damage to the boat hull. Looking at the damage on my boat it seems like the washer on the outside has been forced through the hull - which I believe I have been unable to do considering the fact that all I've used for boat repair is the Dagger multi-tool thingey that followed the boat.

I did contact Dagger's Norwegian dealer a couple of weeks ago but have yeat not heard anything about what they can do about it.

So, this is not blogged to get even with Dagger as really enjoy my boat, but the idea was for all you Mamaba owners out there to either be careful when thightening the seat attachment, or take the boat apart and replace the washer - that's what I'll do.

Regards

Håvar

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