Hi Dave, I chose the Guillemot Double, both because I've heard decent reviews of it, and I bought Nick Schade's "The Strip-Built Sea Kayak". He publishes the station offsets in the book--it's a bit more work than buying plans and gluing the predrawn stations to the plywood, but I'm in it as much for the fun of building as for the fun of paddling the finished boat. I'll modify the existing deck layout to include the large center hatch. I'd like to possibly make the boat a bit narrower--28" is relatively narrow for a double, but I don't like the feeling of having the boat roll under me in waves. I didn't go into a great deal of research before considering this boat-- certainly not as much as I'd do for a single. It'll just be a boat for paddling with the wife (less-challenging water) and for a "company" boat. If I really don't like it, the local canoe dealer would put it on consignment for me, but I'm not worried about really not liking it. Shawn Dave Kruger wrote: >It was not the Pygmy Osprey Triple, IIRC. Mind telling us how you made >your choice? (I have a stitch-and-glue double in my future -- a year >or two out there, however.) -- Shawn W. Baker 0 46°53'N © 1999 ____©/______ 114°06'W ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ baker_at_montana.com 0 http://www.missoulaconcrete.com/shawn/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Nov 04 1999 - 12:35:47 PST
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