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From: <LedJube_at_aol.com>
subject: [Paddlewise] Big Guys (gone shrimp boating)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:20:46 EST
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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From: Jerry Hawkins <jhawkins_at_cisco.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Big Guys (gone shrimp boating)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:50:29 -0800
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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From: <Hal_at_mbox305.swipnet.se>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Big Guys (gone shrimp boating)
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 16:36:35 +0100
I just checked the pygmy boats web site and did not see any 
reference to the cockpit measurements. The interior size of the 
coaming is a consideration for big guys.


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From: Wes Boyd <boydwe_at_dmci.net>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Big Guys (gone shrimp boating)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:10:42
At 01:20 PM 1/13/00 EST, 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.  

A "snug" fit at 230#? Yep, that's a "shrimp boat", all right.

My definition of a shrimp boat is anything that too small for ME to fit into.
(At 6'0" and 300 lbs.)

-- Wes
Thinking big thoughts.


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