Dave Uebele wrote: > It seems she finds the tight confines of the narrow boats too uncomfortable > a match with her own beam. So any suggestions of other compromise kayaks > that will provide hip and thigh room, while perhaps being > a bit more performance oriented than the pungo? > any suggestions, or at least condolences? At least I do have > permission to get another kayak, but I'd really rather be able to > spend time and money on narrower kayaks, and not another wide kayak. Hi Dave. Check out the Current Designs Solstice series. At about 24 inches wide they are not too confining, but they have plenty of performance. A friend of mine recently picked up a GTS and loves it. She can get claustrophobic wearing tight clothes, so the boat can't be too confining. At the same time, the Solstice offers decent initial stability without hampering future growth as a paddler. Mike - the happy owner of a different Current Designs boat. -- 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 Tue May 16 2000 - 10:51:03 PDT
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