Re: [Paddlewise] Surfing kayaks

Surfbuff,

For your size, you may wish to investigate the Mega Rio, which is their
latest international class surf kayak. It has tons of room for me, and I
am 6'2" size 13 feet. It would easily accomodate you. It is a fairly
radical design as far Intl class goes, and is supposed to be pretty good
for surfing big waves. I've got one, but alas haven't paddled it yet due
to too much school work and too many nearby rivers.

Also, I have on account from Preston that his boat shreds like none other.
I am impressed by his design and construction methods, and you should
check out his website provided by Kirk below. You can email Preston at
pholmes_at_ucsd.edu. He should know how to get in touch with Rocky.

Cheers,
Kevin
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	/   Kevin Whilden   \
       |Dept. of Geosciences ___
       |University of Washington \
       |kwhilden_at_u.washington.edu| 
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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Kirk Olsen wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, SurfBuff wrote:
> 
> > I'd appreciate whatever info anybody anybody here can help me with, 
> > but I'd like to reach particularly Scott in Southern Calif., and Rocky 
> > Contos.  I know both the latter are surf-kayak loonies..... > 
> 
> Preston Holmes has an interesting home built surf boat at 
> http://siolibrary.ucsd.edu/Preston/kayak/surfboat
> 
> I vaguely recall that Preston is one of Rocky Contos's paddling 
> partners.
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