Between these inner tubes is an elevated comfortable inflatable seat with a backrest, which is attracted to the fabric cover of the boat and so it does not bend, and thus creates a great support for the fisherman's back!Īt the Belly Boat Guideline Drifter Kick Boat, we also find a back support rod, which rests on inflated souls and provides real support for our backs! The seat is connected to the backrest, it sits with the main tubes on the water, so the access of water to the fisherman's body is really only from the feet, which are submerged in the water below the knees, so that they can correct the V-Boat by moving the fins. These tubes are covered with a tough nylon material, on which we find on both sides spacious and divided zipper pockets, velcro fasteners for attaching a spare rod or landing net, or on some models (OutCast) even padded holders for a bottle or cup with a drink.
This type of boat retained the basic principles of Belly-Boat as such, and also solved all the problematic elements of its predecessor in the form of U-Boat.įirst of all, here we find the division of a single main soul into two "banana" inner tubes, which are connected at their thinner ends (hence the shape of the letter V). Leaving aside the various pontoons, catamarans and their all sorts of "hybrids" with the original Belly-Boat concept, which I don't want to focus on, because I don't even consider them to be a real Belly-Boat, we get to the last and almost perfect stage of Belly-Boat: V-Boat whose excellent specific example is Belly Boat Guideline Drifter Kick Boat. A huge disadvantage of this type of boat was the thin fabric "seat" - a strip of fabric connecting the both sides of Belly-Boat, so you actually sat in the water! With my U-Boat, I solved it with an inflatable pillow, but I still did not avoid the access of water to my back. The best known and probably the most used model was the legendary purple-green U-Boat Creek Company for purchase in Gammarus store. There was also a practical inflatable backrest and therefore another extra air chamber, which was a great benefit in case the main soul started to run to seed! The U-Boats also had fabric pockets on the sides, where it was possible to store boxes with flies, spare clothes or a snack. The wedge was dammed with a rod with a net for storing the fly line.
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Such a Belly-Boat was U-shaped, ie open at the front for free movement of legs. The already mentioned U-Boat was another and much more comfortable and safer stage of development. After a few hours in the icy water I was like an icicle! :-) Fishing for a nice rainbow during an autumn day on the Labska Reservoir in Špindlerův Mlýn.
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