> There are a load of differences between the Strait Jacket and the Rio > Grande models, both from Lotus Designs of North Carolina > (http://www.lotusdesigns.com). The Strait Jacket is the sea kayaker > version of the Rio Grande with the following added features: . . . > The only thing that the Rio Grande has that the Strait Jacket doesn't > have is that its second pocket is bigger. The second pocket on the > Strait Jacket is about 40% as large as the regular sized pockets. > I wonder why the different pocket sizes? I may have tunnel vision but the only "real" advantage I see to the Strait Jacket is (as Joq mentioned) the yellow color selection. Black and purple are probably cool colors when you're boffin' ina hole (or whatever it is the ww guys do) but not so cool if you're bobbin' in da ocean all by your lonesome. I think I want something that screams out "HERE I AM!!!!!" if/when needed. The color thing, rather than the "nice to have" extras, may make me re-think the Rio Grande. Thanx for the thoughts. Who knows, you may have saved my life :-). *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu May 14 1998 - 12:20:17 PDT
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