filippodg wrote:
Okay...
no matter what laws say, it works in my yak, and that's a fact. Anyhow.
Put some more pool noodles in your Outback and see if it will float off the ground! And post pictures!
I have a suggestion: take the pool noodles out of the back of your Outback. Tape a ruler to the side of the kayak's rudder. Put the kayak in some very still water, like a swimming pool, with the rudder down. Take a picture of the ruler, showing the point where the surface of the water crosses the ruler. Then add two pool noodles to the back of the kayak, and take another picture of the ruler. My prediction: the ruler may be very slightly lower in the water, but because two pool noodles are quite light compared to the buoyancy of your kayak, the difference won't be very much. Remember, the Hobie web page says that Outbacks have a weight capacity of 400 pounds, so the weight of a pool noodle is trivial compared to that. Then add as many pool noodles to the back of your kayak as can be jammed into it. My prediction: the ruler will be even lower in the water, but again not by very much.