How To Dry Your Inflatable Kayak For Ocean

Having an inflatable Kayak for ocean is something interesting and wonderful. But you need to take proper care of it. You need to maintain with accuracy to keep it safe and healthy. In the first step of Keeping your inflatable Kayak healthy, it requires proper drying or else there may grow fungus or bacteria that will hamper your Kayak in the long run. Not only hamper but also ruin your favorite Kayak gradually.

Most of us clean Peebles, sand, stones, dust, and dirt very carefully, but reluctant in the case of drying it. But it must be dried properly so that any moisture you do not miss to remove. Here I will try to give an easy guideline that will help you to dry your Kayak properly within a shortest possible time.

How To Dry Your Inflatable Kayak For Ocean

If you want to dry your Kayak properly, it would be better to let it dry in sunlight for a while before starting the drying process. If you don't have enough time, then you may start the following process directly.

You will need at least two towels to dry your Kayak properly. Detach all the removable accessories like extra bags, seat and all other things. Now you should start cleaning the outer surface. Dry the outer surface completely and move on to the next steps.

Next step is deflating your floor or tipping your Kayak sideways or upside down so that the excess water may drain out automatically. Check if there's any sand, pebbles or dirt if found clean that too. But most importantly dry the whole area with the help of the towel.

Next, you will need to deflate the remaining accessories and using your towel absorb all the moisture. Then with the other towel dry it completely. The whole process is pretty easier and won't take too much time or effort. Now turn your deflated Kayak on and dry off the bottom completely using the towel.

The question may arise in your mind that does it require such thorough drying always? The answer is no, absolutely not. When you use your Kayak quite often, like once in a week, then it doesn't need to be dried with this much accuracy.

But, if you are going to use it after a long time, you must dry it thoroughly and properly, or else fungus and bacteria may develop and would smell bad. Not only that, this may damage your favorite Inflatable Kayak permanently. In a time of storing it for a long time, make sure every step is followed strictly with accuracy. This time you should give a proper cleaning also.

Final Words: Following the above steps, it will be pretty easier to dry your inflatable Kayak properly, and after several times, you will be an expert. While taking care of your best inflatable Kayak for ocean, you should always remember that Peebles and sand are not a threat to your Kayak, but water and moisture are surely a great threat to your Kayak.  To keep it safe you should never be reluctant to this matter.