Bob, You may want to consider plastic for the kayak you want to beat the crap out of. By the way, I recently went to a slide show put on by Roger Schumann and Jan Shriner, who are well known, respected and experienced sea kayakers and instructors. The slide show was at Southwind Kayak Center in Southern California. During the slide show, Roger and Jan emphasized leaning advanced sea kayaking skills to enjoy the rock gardens and sea caves along the Central California coast. Jan recommended plastic sea kayaks for this type of paddling, because the fiberglass kayaks get damaged. Most of the slides showed them in plastic kayaks, especially when they were around the rocks and caves. They were doing the slide show on their way to Baja, and I couldn't help but notice the plastic kayaks on their car in the parking lot. I also noticed in the slides of Roger that he was using an unfeathered paddle. Take it for what it is worth! Duane Strosaker Roll or drown, and if you should drown, may your remains be scuttled with you kayak! (Have a sense of humor, because it's only a macho saying!) <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/pirateseakayaker/index.html">Pirate Sea Kayaker</A> *************************************************************************** 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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