HI Keith, First: I have a Finnish-built Sea-Lady tandem (or do you say double?), which is 6 meters long and abot 56 centimeters wide. Very low middle profile, to avoid scratching your hands or the paddles (if the kayak is too wide for you or if the deck is too high). Beautiful as one can get - a real lady. Worth of trustworthy even in harder winds: last summer we paddled at a little bit more than three-metre waves (not breaking waves, fortunately). Yes. Secondly: a Nordkapp, which is new. Never tested it during a long trip (Canadian Ballast Rocks...), but it is little bit unstable. Not very much packing volume. The reasons for my choices: I am quite smallish (175 centimetres and some 68 kilos - that depends :-)) It is easier to handle a more "lively" kayak than a large titanic.. My motto is: good kayakers are also good in samba! I might undersign that statement with a note that it is your ability to move and especially move in rescue situations than trust to equipment blindly. Yours Ari "1000 islands and I am familiar to only 5% of them" *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Feb 18 1998 - 07:04:24 PST
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