#48923 - 02/13/03 08:45 PM
Pumping up air rafts?
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knation57
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Registered: 02/12/03
Posts: 7
Loc: thousand oaks, ca, usa
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Have read several posts regarding bringing air rafts. How do you fill them up? I love the thought of just floating in the lagoon. Any tips?
T-Minus Two Weeks,
And Thanks,
Kerry
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#48924 - 02/13/03 11:48 PM
Re: Pumping up air rafts?
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surfcontrol
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Registered: 12/27/02
Posts: 51
Loc: Westlake Vill, CA USA
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Well, you could always use your mouth! In all seriousness, just go to your local pool store and get a couple of those $6 rafts, they are about the size of a book when folded up and can be blown up in about 5 minutes....
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#48925 - 02/14/03 06:08 AM
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Jim B
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Registered: 08/15/02
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Loc: Montana
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We are taking our Tote and floats. Went to Walmart and bought a $4.00 pump.
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#48926 - 02/14/03 07:48 AM
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Pacific Andy
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Loc: Los Angeles, CA
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First You Roll out the raft in your room. Then you proceed to the hotel bar and ask the bar tender for a Mai Tai, then a Boom Boom, drink quickly. Then get a couple of Hinano's and proceed back to your room as fast as you can, run run run. Get in your room, get the raft and begin to blow and in between each blow take a drink of the Hinano. At the end you will either have a blown up raft or you will be passed out on the raft. Either way you will be using it.
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#48927 - 02/14/03 11:55 PM
Re: Pumping up air rafts?
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knation57
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Registered: 02/12/03
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Loc: thousand oaks, ca, usa
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Due Deliverance; Pac Andy/Surf Control
Ned Beatty would be proud of you! In retrospect I now see that my post was idiotic. However, I can't even blow up a baloon let alone a air raft. I was looking for a answer like 'The Hotel Blah Blah' has a compressor. Sorry that that I indeverantly stepped into your side of the world. Jim B., just what does 'Toat and Float' mean? This is an unfamiliar term to me. I would rather skip it if it takes more than five minutes to blow up. Unless It's bigger than a book!
T-Minus 13,
Kerry7
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#48928 - 02/15/03 04:38 AM
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Charlie
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Registered: 03/01/02
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Loc: Wallingford, Pa., USA.
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Knation take no offense.......folks are just having a little fun."Tote and float"is just an expression on portability(easy to carry around/travel with).The rafts are SMALL,inexpensive and meant to give a LITTLE support as you float,snorkle around the lagoon or pool.You won't be sailing the seven seas in it.An air compressor isn't necessary,even if you're on a lung transplant list one should have no problem inflating the water toy.........try to have a nice trip.
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#48929 - 02/15/03 10:25 AM
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Submarine
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Registered: 01/03/03
Posts: 1033
Loc: Gilbert, Arizona, USA
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Yeah maybe he's a heavy smoker! (just kidding! check out "non-smoking rooms in Moorea")
I wonder if you could bring some of those CO2 canisters like we used to use in BB guns? Or if the airlines would have a problem with that.
Might not take too many of those to fill up a normal air matteress.
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#48930 - 02/15/03 10:07 PM
Re: Pumping up air rafts?
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knation57
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Registered: 02/12/03
Posts: 7
Loc: thousand oaks, ca, usa
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Okay, Funs up, I now realize just how silly my post sounded. Went looking today for a tote and float. Couldn't even find a regular size raft. For the record the two that I have and use on the Kern River are not possible to blow up by mouth. Those were the rafts that I thought you all were refering to. Savons, Right Aid, Long's and K-Mart all said that they should have their rafts available soon. For the real idea about what it's all about take a look at SPATSTANE'S photos on ezboard, go to tahiti then french p. then trip report day 8 and day 9 if you liked 8.
T-Minus 12,
Kerry
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#48931 - 02/16/03 10:46 AM
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Anonymous
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We also went for the advice on bring your on floats, at the time there was no mention that you could buy them there for $6 , oh well. We are planning on floating alot so why take a chance on an inferior float. The local stores will not have the summer stuff yet so I bought a pair of nice ones at qualitytrading.com. Good prices and they came in 2 days. We have some pumps but with all the snorkeling stuff I am bringing, I aleady have too much stuff as it is so I am going to blow em up myself.
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#48932 - 02/16/03 02:14 PM
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Anonymous
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KNation,
Go to http://www.poolstore.com, click on "air mattresses," then on "frosted air mats." For $4.99, you can have your choice of aqua, pink, or blue! (Be sure to leave them with a local Tahitian kid when you leave -- they LOVE those things!) Then go to http://www.pooltoy.com and look for the "inflatable foot bellows" for $9.95 -- a small gizmo to take to blow up your rafts (although probably any drug store bicycle tire pump would do as well). Happy floating!
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