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Old 03-02-2010, 07:31 AM
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OK, lets say you weigh 300 pounds. You would need about 3 cubic feet on the outrigger assuming the hull was supporting 1/2 your weight. That is overkill. Think levers and fulcrums, applied physics and so on and so on and so on.
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Yea, thanks.
And to think I was just going to tie a bunch of milk jugs together till I floated...........
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