On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Bob Denton wrote: > There was a British kayak made of Royalex, made by Piranha I believe. I > paddled it and it was quite ok. I still technically own an Old Town kayak built of royalex(Oltonar) in about 1977. In one persons words "That boat is the worst kayak ever designed, I don't even want to call it a kayak". Fortunately my mother is too frugal to buy her own boat and perfectly happy to use it to putter around the small river in her side yard. With practice it can be controlled.... It's floppy, heavy, and the seat is too far forward so the boat is bow heavy. Moving the seat isn't feasible, paddling with rocks helps but it's just not worth it. I hereby nominate it as the worst commercially produced kayak, so far ;-) There are probably a fair number of homebuilts that could beat it out as the worst kayak ever... *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Jan 07 2000 - 10:16:58 PST
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