>Is anyone familiar with a New Zealand based company called Challenge >Plastics? If so, have you ever paddled their Sea Quest or Breeze. Yes. The Sea Quest is a big boat, we had two with us on the Fiji circumnavigation. Built in Keri Keri, north of Auckland. An adaption of the Sea Bear by Ron Augustin though there was acromony over that so I heard - some of the excessive(?) rocker was taken out. The moulding design on the foredeck is a replica of the Sea Bear's foredeck. A hard chine design. The Breeze is a small boat, gently curved bottom with a chine and flat sides. OK for a small paddler but not much side to lay the boat over on. I did a little bit of gentle surfing in one one afternoon. After I changed boats, every time I saw it it was upside down so obviously not to everyone's taste. Steering is via a fixed cross bar with a horizontal bar mounted above it and pivoted in the middle. As far as I remember, auto-adjusting rudder lines. NOTE - is is possible (and most of us (?) do outside USA) design rudder systems which allow a solid platform to brace against. Alex Alex (Sandy) Ferguson Chemistry Department University of Canterbury New Zealand *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jul 26 1999 - 14:18:47 PDT
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