Intersesting

[eyeguy 54]

Went out after some gills today on a local lake. Got inspected by a nice young guy and he went over the yak bigtime. When I came off he looked at it again and was concerned about the drain plug on the top front of my yak. I mentioned since its a sit on top water doesn't get in the yak unless you have some of the compartments open that are never open so I always have it screwed in tight. It's on top I mentioned.  So he had to call a supervisor and sure enough, gotta have it unscrewed...    I told him I thought that was pretty crazy. LOL   So I left with it like in the pic.  I got home and it was in place and half ways screwed on. LOL  from vibration I suppose.  sheesh ! !  LOL  . 

[ZachD]

Drain plug is a drain plug

rules are rules I always unplugged mine for transport

 

even though if I had water in the yak I would try draining it all by holding the kayak vertical but could never get all the water anyway

[certified jumbo]

Yes silly.  But just doing his job.  No harm done....

[eyeguy 54]

Silly thing is that its a sit on top yak so water doesn't get in the yak.  I haul it with plug up. Nothing will drain from it unless somehow water got in it and we lose gravity. LOL. and yes I know he is just doing his job. nice young guy. 

[ozzie]

those inspectors are surely just doing their jobs but what a pointless job to begin with!!  I can't even count how many times I have seen something ridiculous at the landing and the inspectors did or could do nothing....like the time the inspector was setting up his chair for the day and a pontoon was at the landing draining it toons directly into the lake which they had many gallons of water in them. Once they were done they screwed a cap on and launched the pontoon!  Or the one that I really think is the biggest culprit of transporting exotics are all of these wake boats!!!  They fill up internal bladders with lake water and then try to expel the water once they don't want a wake anymore and I guarantee that they do not pump all the water out so the water sits in there until they go to the next lake and boom lake waters mix and exotics go to a new lake!   I had to laugh one year we went to North Long Lake in Merrifield/Brainerd area and they were washing boats as they left the lake.  I said to the DNR people "Is North Long infested with exotics?" and at the time they stated "No, North Long is a healthy clean lake!" (it now has Zebra muscles in it) so I asked them "Why are you pressure washing boats that come off the lake then and not before entering?"  There reasoning is that it would take too much time to pressure wash upon arrival!!!!  WTF is the point I told them and sure enough 2 years later they had zebra's growing.  Not sure they could have prevented them but surely the way they were doing it was a wasted effort and wasted money!!!!