Dave wrote: ---------------------------------- > I'm looking to move up from my SOTs to a decked kayak. I've been looking > at > a lot of boats and keep running into the same problem. That is that > kayaks > are small and I'm big...6'-3", 240lbs with size 13 feet. ---------------------------------- FWIW: I'm not as tall as you, but weigh in at 230+. For more than a year now I have been paddling a Dagger Sitka (glass) and have found it an excellent boat for my size. It's an 18 foot boat with plenty of storage, but still handles fairly well. Despite all of the discussions of displacement and CG that your post derived, I would recommend that the most important thing is that that you sit in as many different boats as possible and that you test paddle any boat before you buy. Many boats that I tried that had high volumes, and thus were rated to carry *lots* of weight, were very uncomfortable and paddled poorly. Good Luck Rich. _______________ wahls_at_wahls.net _______________ *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Mar 31 2000 - 08:35:14 PST
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