....review..... hmmm, lemma see he'eah son. Right at 16 feet ....highly rockered.....VCP hatches (big plus)......low back deck (for layback roll enthusiast) ......retractable skeg ...... day hatch..... all of this you could see from a promo picture. Nuts and bolts: Surfs well.....possibly exceptionally well. Heavy-as-hell. (I don't care). Needs thighbraces desperately for a manhole made for a butt that no terrestrial on this planet possesses. I jury rigged a set of perception white water kayak thighbraces to fit nicely. Back surfs supremely. Stays in and comes in close to the wall....got tubed at one point and made it out.. In short, it was all that I had hoped it would be as far as a compromise between a boat that I could stuff a raft of camping gear into, and yet take out to the riverbreaks on these barrier islands (JAW-juh) to surf once I got there, without dragging a whitewater boat behind to fend off camping boredom, and maintain stoke quotient. It seems fairly fast as well, although I realize that this is a highly subjective comment. My first impression of the boat was (I never really like any boat first time out), that it was a yawed a bit much. I've never owned a boat with that much initial stability....it really seemed reluctant to go over. Rolling it, once I managed to get it over was no problemo. Haven't tried any hand rolls yet. Anyone know any method of gluing an eyestrap to the underside of the rubber VCP hatch to attach a cord from there to the bulkhead? I found a way to adhere an eyestrap to the bulkhead already, as polyethylene only likes polyethylene, I shaved a sliver of plastic from underneath the lip of one of the hatches and affixed the eyestrap to the bulkhead with a mini propane torch. It's holding! The adhesive that will adhere to the rubber is the bugger. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
>Anyone know any method of gluing an eyestrap to the underside of >the rubber VCP hatch to attach a cord from there to the bulkhead? == I cut a small rubber strip from a cheap door mat, scraped an area of the underside of the VCP hatch as well as one side of the rubber strip, then used contact cement to glue the two together, with a plastic D-ring at the center of the rubber strip. The cement is the same stuff that is used for patching tires. These have held for a couple of seasons. Be sure to roughen the rubber on the underside of the VCP hatch well, or the glue will not hold. Inside the hatch, the D-rings are held in place by stiff plastic ring-holders made for the purpose (from NRS?), and glued to the fiberglass with Marine Goop. Bob Volin *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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