On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, R. Walker wrote: > > 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". [snip] also depends on who's calling it a "sea kayak"!! i paddle the prijon yukon expedition [14'6"] which is _called_ a sea kayak!! and also the aquaterra spectrum, which is the same length. both are more like a "river touring" boat. they take some work to keep straight, but will turn very well heeled up... mark #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com----http://www.diac.com/~zen/mark ---- # mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/paddler [index to club websites i administer] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page -- Fortune: "In a world without fences, who needs 'Gates'" -- Scott McNealy "In a world without walls, who needs 'Windows'" -- Dave Livigni *************************************************************************** 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 - 13:32:37 PDT
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