Buoyancy Blocks & Bags
Fitting additional buoyancy bags or blocks into your open canoe is a relatively simply thing to do. Below are the best selling and most popular ways of adding buoyancy.
Fitting additional buoyancy bags or blocks into your open canoe is a relatively simply thing to do. Below are the best selling and most popular ways of adding buoyancy.
An easy to fit pair of buoyancy blocks for open canoes, constructed from a heavy duty outer covering with an internal polystyren block that can be shaved/cut to the shape of most canoes. Featuring a front mesh storage pocket, integrated strap for securing to your open canoes painter loop or D-Ring, top bungees and top mounted plastic d-ring to allow for easier lashing into the underside of the canoes gunwales. Lashing kit not included, we recommend lashing in your canoe buoyancy blocks for added security.
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The RUK heavy duty 85L canoe airbags are made for use with most shapes of open canoe. Made from a superbly tough PVC coated fabric with high frequency welded seams these bags are abrasion resistant. Brass eyelets that are integrated into the seams of these canoe airbags make fixing them onto canoe gunwales much easier. Using a pillow shaped design to enhance the durability and eliminate premature corner failures where the seams trying to capture more than 2 bits of material. The truncated tube shape ensures these back fit well into the bow and stern of most open canoe shapes. For inflation and deflation RUK have given these canoe airbags long inflation tubes with twist screw lock valves.
A very tough PVC nylon construction with a heavy duty welded seam, they feature corner eyelets and a rear d-ring for easier lacing.
Heavy Duty inflatable bow and stern canoe buoyancy bags. Available in a range of sizes. Features include d-rings for easy installation and dump valve.
Whitewater kayak airbags / buoyancy bags.
P-Clips are what most paddlers use to neatly secure buoyancy bags or blocks to the underside of a gunwale.
Pop Rivets are a great way of securing anchoring points into your open canoe. They fit perfectly through most forms of gunwale and create a safe, secure fixing point.
Sold by the metre, this cord is extremely durable and ideal for lacing an open canoe. Colour may vary from image.
Complete kit for installing buoyancy blocks or bags into your canoe. Contains Pop Rivets, P Clips and Cord for fitting both bow and stern buoyancy bags or blocks and also fitting grab loops if you desire.
2 inch D Rings attached to a Vinyl base via Nylon webbing. All stitched together to produce a heard wearing, reliable way of securing buoyancy blocks and bags into your canoe.
Screw-top tin of Vinyl Tec 2000 marine adhesive. Ideal for fitting D-Rings into your open canoe.
High quality 3m & 5m straps for securing buoyancy bags and blocks to canoes.
10mm High Tensile polypropylene floating rope. Perfect for grab loops when fitting buoyancy blocks, bags or just as painter and swim lines.
10mm floating polypropylene line that's ideal for painter lines, anchor kits and when adding buoyancy.
5mm Bungee Shock Cord for sale by the metre.
Ideal for outfitting your open canoe.
Keel Eazy protective keel guard is a self adhesive tape style strip that can be shaped around curves without the need for folding or any fluting happening. This 2" (50mm) Wide strip is easy to fit, simply clean down the hull then use a heat gun to stretch and mould the strips to the hull form you are working with. A great solution to avoid scrapes, scuff and abrasions in high wear areas of hulls.