Jon Lull wrote: > 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 Well, ok, I'm not trying to suggest the Edisto is some incredible performance boat; but I'd definately say its of "reasonable quality". I spent several hours in the surf with it Saturday, practicing launches and landings; and I have to say it performed just fine. Its not a surfing boat, but we did ok, once I learned how to properly brace into the wave. And once past the surf, I had no difficulty paddling through the wierd waves caused by swells from the East and wind from the North. The Edisto is 14.5', which is short by most folks standards; though it is as long a boat as I can currently store. When you give up length, you give up speed, its as simple as that. No sense trying to wish it weren't so. The Edisto is perfectly comfortable to paddle between 3-4 kts; and as I rarely see anyone in the longer boats actually paddling above 4 kts, I don't think I'm missing out on much. Richard Walker Houston, TX *************************************************************************** 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 - 12:37:16 PDT
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