The Foam Weenie is a great addition for extra floatation, has anyone tried to stuff a float bag (E.G. Omer Atoll, or anyother flat float bag with dual inflation bladders) with the Foam Weenies (without the bladders) so you have portable non collapsing floatation, I hope to take the float bag on trips and buy 2 or 3- 2$ weenies at any ace hardware store and then I will have a float that wont collapse like a sandwitch bag dragged down to 15M when I hit something worthy!! when I am done I can give them away to kids for sword play and floatation! and fly on with my empty float bag.
I actually run two floats Rob Allen pumped with 1.5-2 atmospheres from a bike pump (primary workhorse float) and an Omer Atoll (orally inflated of course) that is my surface support float, with a 75ft Riffe bungie (ludicrously expensive-one of my worst purchases actually, except that it is durable for a full bungie) to a double banded 110mm Riffe Euro set up for reef, but the floats carry my stringer and water, Power bars, spare line, Spare Fixy Poms for rough exits, and some anti-fog for when My spit runs out!
I have noticed that the Omer Atoll with a dive weight, still has a bunch of drag, and with fish is a pain in the ASS! especially in current, so if anyone is considering long distance swimming witha catch, you better construct a streamlined N-Boat! with a built in SKEG for uprighting. So far you cant beat the good foam Boogie Board of which I dont have one, I am saving up to make an N-Boat out of Fiberglass that looks like a little pirate ship with a cannon and a Mermaid Maidenhead!! Just kidding! what about a pool seat! then you could take a load off properly!
Did I start out this e-mail admiring someones foam Weenie?
sheesh I gotta censor my responses, I think I have digital Turrets syndrome!
LOL!!!
best of luck making a long distance explorer float!!
a paddle board would be the best option if you have to not use a kayak.
P.S. My Partner and I just took Biggest fish (it was a team effort) at a Marianas Apnea Spearfishing Club (MASC) 2nd Annual spearfishing competition in the CNMI islands competing against several commercial spearfisherman and the Borja brothers who are regular contributors in Hawaii Skin Diver, does that make me COOL? LOL!! I just fish for fun, and the comp was another excuse to my wife to train to fish, while actually just spearfishing to go out and do some more spearfishing, which is easier than trying to explain that I just want to go spearfishing on the weekends for some wierd reason.
TBGSUB.