Kirby Stevens wrote: I would like to comment on the short boat issue. Northwest Kayaks makes a small kayak called the Sportee. It comes in both the plastic and fiberglass varieties, it is very responsive and dynamite for surfing. K.Stevens Yes, the Sportee is a nice boat in the short sea kayak catagory (in fiberglass-forget the plastic one); too bad the cockpit is so large, though. The other short sea kayak of reasonable quality is the Necky Looksha Sport, but the stern is relatively high volume and there is a relatively high rocker for a sea kayak. So the boat tends to weathervane. Now we've talked about all the short sea kayaks I know of. If I listed all the 17 to 18 foot long sea kayaks, you'd spend 3 hours reading this e-mail. I've got nothing against the longer boats (I even own one); but I doubt that most kayakers realize the potential of the shorter boats. Then again, I guess there aren't too many ocean rock garden paddlers out there. John Lull *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Oct 12 1998 - 11:52:17 PDT
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