Re: [Paddlewise] Big Guys (gone shrimp boating)

All interested in the big guy boat issue -

I wonder if Wes considered the Pygmy Boats Queen Charlotte XL?  It is aimed at the big guy / long touring class.  17'6" x 25.5" width, 13" depth.  I have not tried it but it looks like it fits the bill.

jerry.

At 01:20 PM 01/13/2000 -0500, LedJube_at_aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 1/13/00 9:53:21 AM, dkruger_at_pacifier.com writes:
><< FYI:  Wes Boyd (a Paddlewiser?) has posted this treatise on yaks for big 
>guys: 
>http://www2.dmci.net/users/wesboyd/bigguy.htm>>
>
>Feeling rather svelte.......
>
>Since Wes Boyd has decried the Romany, and by association the Explorer,  as 
>"Shrimp Boats"  I'm feeling pretty good about my size.  Granted the Explorer 
>fits my 6'1" 230# roundness very snugly, but I do in fact fit, and it is a 
>comfortable fit.  
>
>There'll be hard pressed to find something to rip this bad boy out of his 
>boat.
>
>Jed
>(admiring our first official snow in the northeast)
>
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