A tool you'll need

Just wanted to pass this along.  IF you use barrels for floatation, you're gonna need a bung wrench (also called barrel stopper wrench, barrel stopper tool, and a number of other more confusing terms.).  It's cheap (the plastic ones, which are all you need, run around $10) and looks like this:

It will let you get in between the barrels, even when in the water, to loosen or tighten the bungs, adjust floatation, see if they're unaccountably full of water, etc. etc.

I mention this because we DIDN'T have one until today, and were using all manner of inappropriate and half-witted things to make do.

Get one.

M