Vivian Oliva wrote: > Thanks Sandy for posting that, I too got a bit uncomfortable with my sot > being referred to as cheap. I spent $1200 for mine with rudder and hatch > options. That is not cheap for a plastic boat of any kind. > > I think he was trying to show the extremes. I did not take it that he was trying to say that all sit on tops are cheap, but the cheapest *still seaworthy* kayaks are the cheap plastic sit on tops. I say still seaworthy because the cheaper recreational kayaks (in my opinion) are not safe for anything but the most benign conditions. Besides, at half the price of my Caribou and one third the price of a kevlar Extreme well outfitted, your $1200 dollar sit on top is "cheap." (kind of makes me jealous, perhaps I am paying way too much for my kayaks!) :-) Cheap here refers to price, not quality. Mike -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Mar 02 2000 - 09:25:14 PST
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