Man, my wife would kill me if I bought another kayak right now, even though I think I'd like a sea kayak, or that WS Pamlico Sport Excel.... Yeah, that's the ticket! *GRIN* -- Dell *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Ok, ...........let's raise the stakes a bit. As you sit at your terminal at work......the boss is terrorizing some other hapless soul at the moment and you are dreaming of your absolute 'dream' kayak...........suddenly over to your left, just outside your periphery the copy machine seems to be behaving oddly.......... it coughs and wheezes, and that corner of the office fills with an acrid blue smoke, like your Studebaker wagon used to disgorge every morning during warm-up exercises. Out of the azul haze steps ...........a barely recognizable form.......you park your bifocals on your forehead for a moment and swivel your chair, one elbow slung on the backrest to have a better look at this ghostly form, now wheezing and coughing herself and stepping from the blue haze.........Why.....it's Glenda!!!!......... your own personal fairy gosh-mother! And she's rather oddly appareled as well, head to toe in a kamelika (that's an Aleut sea-lion intestine rain slicker, for the uninitiated ), and seems to be brandishing an unfeathered King Islander single bladed paddle (yes, I know that all single paddles are unfeathered, smartypants), but his one has *seaquins* all over it! Immediately you realize that dressed in so oddly a manner for a Minneapolis office workday, she probably has something in the grant-you-three-wishes-line in mind for you today. So here it is.......quickly you blurt out your choices of kayaks in descending order.....three of 'em......as she is a magic fairy gosh mother and therefore price is of no object you let your imagination go wild.......and quickly before your boss remembers that you haven't been tormented yet today and enters your cubicle to find you with an oddly appareled woman and fairy dust all over your keyboard and monitor....... And the choices are.......... 1. 2. 3. .......? ' Dell Moore wrote: > Man, my wife would kill me if I bought another kayak right now, even > though I think I'd like a sea kayak, or that WS Pamlico Sport Excel.... > Yeah, that's the ticket! > > *GRIN* > > -- Dell > > *************************************************************************** > PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List > Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net > Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net > Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ > *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Chris & Ellen wrote: snip > she probably has something in the grant-you-three-wishes-line > in mind for you today. > > So here it is.......quickly you blurt out your choices of kayaks in > descending order.....three of 'em......as she is a magic fairy gosh mother and > therefore price is of no object you let your imagination go wild....... > And the choices are.......... 1. Pintail, ocean cockpit, white deck on white hull (colour is important!) 2. Knordkapp J, ocean cockpit, white deck on white hull 3. Aleut double (colours to be negotiated with SO) But of course, 3 isn't nearly enough, do I desire a new kayak, ww boat, canoe?, oh think of the sail rig I could put on an open canoe, is a double a shortcut to marital strife?, should I go for the Pintail - maybe I'd need to paddle a Romany a bit more - for the Romany/Pintail choice is indeed a hard one to make, in fact make that the Romany/Pintail/Anas Acuta choice .......... decisions decisions decisions! But then again I just got back to work on Tuesday after a glorious trip to the west coast (of Scotland for all you new worlders) paddling around Mull, Staffa, and the Treshnish isles in my battered poly capella .... its maybe not which boat, but the paddling that counts ... Cheers Colin Calder 57º19'N 2º10'W *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
1 Klepper Expedition 2 Folbot Kodiak 3 CLC 17 -- gpewitt_at_execpc.com N9ZSV 414 355 8147 Gary Pewitt 6120 W. Calumet Rd. Apt 204 Milwaukee, WI 53223. Boatanchor buff Sturgeon's Law: 90% of Everything is crap. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
> > >And the choices are.......... 1. Romany Explorer - for everyday paddling 2. Feathercraft Khatsalano S - for travel 3. Foster Rowe Vyneck - for expedition and long distance cruising -- John Fereira jaf30_at_cornell.edu *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Great question, I am actually curious to hear some opinions on these boats. I currently have a Current Designs GTS which I love, but to turn the thing you need to pretty much need to lean until submerged. Wonderful during heavy gusts. I have never used the rudder. I am looking at picking up a second boat this fall for all those important reasons (I want one, my girlfriend won't admit she needs one, I want to be called "admiral"). So... 1. Current Designs Extreme -- I was a sceptic, but then I paddled one this past spring. It's fast, tracks *and* leans very nicely. Any opinions on this boat? 2. Romany Explorer -- I love the heavy buildup and the maneuverability, plus the peer pressure of living in the Twin Cities where everyone seems to paddle one of these of the GTS. 3. Plastic Boat of Death -- maybe a Skerray or something shorter and maneuverable to play in Lake Superior surf and loan to clumsy friends. Any recommendations on this? I don't care how tippy the boat is, if they want to paddle my boat, they need to get wet dammit. -Patrick At 9:02 AM -0400 7/14/99, Chris & Ellen Kohut wrote: >[SNIP] > > So here it is.......quickly you blurt out your choices >of kayaks in >descending order.....three of 'em......as she is a magic fairy gosh mother and >therefore price is of no object you let your imagination go wild.......and >quickly before your boss remembers that you haven't been tormented yet today >and enters your cubicle to find you with an oddly appareled woman and fairy >dust all over your keyboard and monitor....... > > And the choices are.......... 1. > > 2. > > 3. .......? *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Ok, first part is how did you scratch the kayak itch. To take our minds off being new parents, we decide to take up kayaking (we've both played with other types of boats and in the water before). Well, keeping it simple, lets get a roto molded double so we can paddle together, plus carry the awaited baby. The HMS rubbermaid is purchased. Hmm, a single would be nice, my uncle had a wooden kayak when I was growing up. plus I've been reading about rescues and an aided rescue is easier, so we really should have several boats... So we make a trip up to Port Townsend to check out the pygmy kayaks. Well, we both fall in love with the looks, so we end up with 2 Coho kits. This gives me an excuse to escape the infant while working in the shop. Ok, first launch of the Coho, our toddler screams her head off at being left behind in the boat she saw dad building in the shop (so much for escaping huh ;-) Well, we'd been thinking about a "Pungo" now that the toddler is too big for laps, and useless as a paddler in the double. This way one of us can paddle the toddler and one in the Coho. Gosh, too bad that mom is still a littler nervous about the low primary stability of the Coho, I'll just have to make the sacrifice ;-) Have fun in the pungo with the kid... The original roto molded double, we keep that around if friends or family visit and want to join us kayaking. Second part: Future plans? wish boats? At some point the toddler will grow into her own boat. Get some nice scaled down kayak for her so we don't have to deal with her in our kayak. A skin on frame might be fun to build, and they look pretty cool. and there is always some sexy sleek fiberglass kayak to tempt me until I look at the price tag. And lastly, the heretic wishes (I even purchased the plans). I guess I caught the boat building disease... Build a 20 foot Mahogany decked runabout, like those 1930 Chris Craft runabouts. plunk an inboard V6 into and go be an *sshole power boater, making nasty wakes for the kayaks (while towing our kayaks to some cool starting point). The runabout is actually mostly my wife's serious fantasy boat, but I can appreciate it. I have to admit the Pygmy "wineglass wherry" is also singing its siren song. row the family around, or rig up a sail and play with it as a small sailboat. Looking forward to going to kayak symposiums or swapping boats with other kayakers so I find other kayaks to lust after. At some point, I might get want to try white water, so I'd have to start paying attention to ww kayaks. dave -- Dave Uebele (daveu_at_sptddog.com) Spotted Dog Systems http://sptddog.com/daveu.html *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
> So here it is.......quickly you blurt out your choices of kayaks in > descending order.....three of 'em Not, bad, my top 2 choices are in the garage. > And the choices are.......... 1. VCP PinTail - wonderful all around boat, I regularly take beginers out in this, but use it myself for skills practice, winter paddling, and playing in the surf. A lightweight one be the only change if the current PinTail wasn't already in the garage. 2. Carbon fiber race surf ski - I've currently got a futura carerra, but may have to start sharing it with the co-owner so we could add another fast boat, preferably a faster boat. I'm open to hints. 3. The ideal family canoe. We're shopping for this one and haven't found it. It's under 50 pounds though.... For those checking their itch, you have a bad case when you buy a canoe/kayak trailer because you can't decide what to take for the weekend at the lake/ocean ;-) kirk trailer owner. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
I've been away from paddlewise for a bit, but I can never resist talking about buying more boats. :) So far I've got: 1 pygmy Arctic Tern 1 carbon kevlar surf kayak (Mega Jester Rio) 1 amazingly fun rodeo kayak (pyranha inazone 240) 1 creek boat (Riot Kix) 1 squirt boat (New Wave bigfoot) I would like to build a super low volume skin frame kayak for the express purpose of learning all those cool rolls that I saw Maligiaq perform. I am also interested a building a traditional Baidarka with the original style bifurcated bow. Finally, I wouldn't mind having one of Jimmy Snyder's new squirt designs. There are also several boats that I want which cannot be purchased. I have already started designing them. Eventually I'll let the details be known, but expect one design to be seen primarily in the surf, and the other to be seen primarily in a tide rip. Kevin ------------------------------- | Kevin Whilden | | kwhilden_at_seanet.com | | Kayak Academy Instructor | | http://www.halcyon.com/kayak | ------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
In a message dated 7/14/99 8:28:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, milo_357_at_yahoo.com writes: << Man, my wife would kill me if I bought another kayak right now, even though I think I'd like a sea kayak, or that WS Pamlico Sport Excel.... >> Ah, yes, another advantage of being single! By the way, I have a Pamlico that I consider my "canoe" and have used on the Peace River when the rest were in Grummans. PS: This was a used rental so I got it cheap, but then found out that paddling the Pamlico as a double was awful without a rudder - so that was an added expense. Our friend who keeps selling and upgrading boats is on a different track from those of us who keep adding to our fleet (I have sold 3 - one I regretted); but it did make me think of something. It's worth buying well-known makes and models of boats that have a re-sale demand. For example, one of our outfitters has a waiting list for his used Prisms. Once you've bought a second-hand boat, you can pretty much get your money back when you sell it. Sandy Kramer Miami, FL *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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