Talking About Adventure In Small Boats
Bones
Member
How do Tribers carry fluids for acessible hydration maintenance? In bottles, camelbacks and is it water or hydrating stuff like propel or sports drinks or all above?
Camelbacks for water strapped nearby and water bottles with high end sports drinks from powder seems pausible.
Bones
BustedRudder
Member
Depends on your ride to some extent. In a kayak,I use 2 3 liter camelbak bladders behind my seat with a valve to switch between them and the hose through a grommet on the deck. Easily disconnected to refill, and add 2 hammer Fizz tablets in each for electrolytes. They are filled based on the leg ahead, I carry small amount of water in hatch for cooking.
MicroTom
Key Master
I paddle a Kruger Dreamcatcher solo canoe. I carry 2 10 liter NRS dromedary bags. I use 2 mainly for safety reasons. I can fill them as needed for any leg of my trips. Total volume is around 5 gallons. One goes under my seat with a drinking tub and Camelbak valve. The other is secured in my rear hatch.
MSR Dromedary Bag with Fill Handle, 10 Liter (Black)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FIU2T6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_U68.xbBDMPV9J
FishBones
Member
I can vouch for those MSR bladders. They are very sturdy, I have two 6 liters.The only problem I had was when I first got them a few years back the inside smelled really bad, I would describe it as a chemical smell. When I tasted the water, it tasted like the smell.
I followed the advice of a few kayakers who had them and fill them up with clean water and dropped a few denture cleaning tablets, the ones that fizz.
It made it much much better but I had to do it like 4 or 5 times. Then I could still taste a very faint chemical taste but it was really not bad, specially when I added electrolyte powder flavor to it, which I made a habbit of doing.
After a while the taste was gone and I thought maybe I had just gotten used to it but when a buddy tried it with some plain water he said there was no taste at all.
I'm not discouraging you to buy one, as a matter of fact Im thinking of buying another one. They are just really good bladders. Never leaked after so many years of extensive use.
FishBones
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