>Allan Singleton - wrote >The actual reason that I have not learned to roll is because I normally >paddle with my wife in a fairly wide double. If you look at the designer's >web page, www.sissonkayaks.co.nz and click on Which Kayak, you will find a >table comparing his various designs. In the primary stability column, where >1 = low and 10 = high, the fastest multisport kayaks rate at 2 or 3, and the >Nordkapp gets an 8. Our Southern Light double rates at 15! So there I am at one of the first NZ sea kayak forums, out on the bar at Mapua and there's a yell from Graham Sisson, or his front paddler, as they try to avoid a single (Paul Caffyn?) as they surf in on a big swell, both paddlers leaned the same way and there is a Southern Light upside-down. Sisson gets in and his front paddler very gingerly eases in. The front paddler could have got on board and walk down the length of the kayak as it was now in flat water and yes, they are stable - usually. A year later, next forum, Sisson is handing out neoprene straps for glasses (with suitable advertising logo), he having lost his in the previous year's mishap, "Expensive forum, that one." he says. NOTE the Southern Light was originally designed (or part of the reason) to be paddled across the Tasman Sea by Paul Caffyn and one other. 1200 miles. Was for a number of years the main rental double available, has a canoe hull with "sea kayak" ends, doesn't grip the water so is hard to turn through the wind. It is the "super-tanker" of kayaks. Alex . . Alex (Sandy) Ferguson Chemistry Department University of Canterbury New Zealand *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Nov 21 1999 - 17:41:53 PST
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