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Seeing how I had a minor
disaster with having to leave
my kayak tied up to the bank
and I was gone in the hospital
for couple of days when I
returned I noticed that my
cargo boxes had taken a spill
so unfortunately I lost
probably I would say 15% of
my gear or I should say of my
cargo and gear which
included some canned goods
maybe a bag of clothes and
unfortunately to cargo boxes
No this didn’t stop me from
continuing on the journey or
from having to retrofit
Moonshadow into a better
streamlined version of itself
then the one I had planned
with two cargo boxes one
inside the other but as I began
the retrofit I knew that I was
actually winding up with a
better streamlined version that
would be equipped to handle
going upriver and down river
better without the cargo boxes
then I would with them it’s
funny how sometimes
adversity can work out to be
in the long run better for you
having pass through it then
what you might’ve intended to do when you had planned it out in the first place
This first retrofit serve me well in being able to plan my interior cargo hold as well as my
upper deck plans and an actual rain fly rain tarp kind of a skirting for the kayak in order to plan
on transport between camps then unload everything then use the kayak to paddle around on.
Using this format then I wind up with a very streamlined version that is wind resistant or wind
conducive because the tarp covers everything and makes it easier to slide through anyways or
wind or rain that might come along