Do you guys always carry a bottle on board, or do you use camel packs?
Saw some kid sailing with a life jacket (PFD) with a built-in camel pack, is this generally accepted, class legal, frown upon?
I can see that having a separate one would be both uncomfortable and ackward.
I browsed the web with finding anything about these devices.
Your thoughts.
Fair winds
Ghislain
People needing to drink whilst racing (between races); what sort of temperatures are you sailing in and how long out on the water ?
Ian
People needing to drink whilst racing (between races); what sort of temperatures are you sailing in and how long out on the water ?
Ian
Though it isn't really used for ballast, I can't see how a Camelback could get around the rules against using water ballast on your body. A very close call in my book.
I keep water bottles secured to my mast with a bungee, and usually there is a boat on the race course handing out water. I went through 3 liters on Saturday and was still wiped out.
I definitely could have used more, but like I said I don't think it was just water. I lost a lot of electrolytes through sweating.
Sports drinks alone will dehydrate you quickly.
How, exactly, will a product specifically made for replenishing the fluids and electrolytes you lose when sweating dehydrate you? That sets off my BS alarm.
First, let me apologize to all here and mostly to Torrid, although I had good intention, I now realize that my question resulted in splitting this subject in two different directions....really sorry.
I have no idea about the drink you propose but my car battery has electrolytes as well and here is no way I would be drinking those. Sea water is an electrolyte and many sailing and being dehydrated have a free supply of that all around them (again, not sensible to drink it). In the UK we suffer a lot from corporate mis-representation. Companies present their products as healthy but when their content is analysed it is found to be very far from the truth. e.g. recent case where a celebrity TV chef who is always campaigning about healthy eating had his own range of packaged meals. On checking the content it was found they was full of salt (at unhealthy levels). Similarly a case where an orange drink targeted at kids as healthy and fresh was sold from chiller cabinets. On investigation it was then found that the drink was full of sugar, did not need to be sold from chillers (more than enough chemical content to avoid that need) very little fruit, etc. - one child even turned orange after drinking it !! So many have become sceptical about product claims as so many then turn out to be false. So much depends of detailed content.
Ian