R. Walker wrote: >Hey, you have the boat I've been thinking about as my next kayak. >I haven't demo'ed it yet, but it has a reputation for being fast and >strongly tracking.... > >Have you had it long enough to get a feel for where its strong >cruising speed is? 3.2 to 3.5 is a very comfortable speed in a No wind condition. The last time I went out to the bay, with the wind behind me, I was surfing along, just barely using my paddle to stay on the wave and was cruising up to 4.6 knots (waves 1 ft.) That's KNOTS! ...as reported on my Magellen 3000 GPS. This boat *is* fast and tracts great. The only criticism I have is that the bow does not rise sharply enough to prevent pearling. Maybe this is an advantage going into the waves. It can cut thorugh steep waves... so much so you can get really slapped hard by a steep oncoming wave that just breaking. Even that day, with wave hgts. were about 1 ft., there was pearling. Not that it meant much. I've only pitchpolled once. I believe the waves were 4 to 5 feet that day...wind around 25 or so at Port Aransas. Robert *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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