On Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:17:25 Mattson, Timothy G wrote: > >I wasn't going to weigh in, but I think I need to put a good word in for >plastic, high tonnage sea kayaks as great starter boats. > >So I recommend that people new to this sport seriously consider starting out >with an inexpensive, forgiving plastic boat. You can always sell it when >your skills pass up what the boat can deliver, but you might find, as I did, >that it fills an important niche in your fleet. > I second that heartily. Since I started this sport this summer I bought a couple of plastic boats, a Looksha IV for me and a Perception Shadow for my wife. It has been a learning experience I'm glad we're doing in boats that can take some abuse. The action that causes the most abuse is launching and landing (getting in and getting out). There have been some "events" that have happened that will (hopefully) never happen again. The abuse the boats took during those events was a lot more than I would want to do to a fiberglass or wooden S&G boat. Probably in a year or so we will upgrade to either fiberglass or build a couple of Coho's. By then, hopefully, we will be better able to control (not that we're bad now) our boats and will have learned enough to avoid all of the bone-headed stuff we've done to the plastic boats. And I will probably keep the plastic boats for playing/loaning. In the mean time we are having a blast in the plastic boats. Joined a float trip down the Kansas river two weeks ago and will probably join another one this weekend. It was mostly canoes so we got a lot of questions from the rest of the people. Mel --- There are three types of people, those who can count and those who can't. PS: Thanks for all of the advice I have received about training schools. Time to get some brochures, do some research, and make a decision in the next few months. -----== Sent via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Easy access to 50,000+ discussion forums *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Oct 07 1998 - 11:36:08 PDT
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