I demo'ed the Eddyline Night Hawk in Carbonlite 2000 this weekend--great boat! It's 16' long, 22" wide, and 48 lbs. With a drop skeg, it is easy to counteract the tiny bit of weathercocking, and with it all the way up, oh boy, is it ever nimble! My buddy had his 16.5' Perception Chinook NW, and I kept having to stop to let him catch up. I'm a devoted wood boat paddler, but I would put this boat near the top of my short list if I were in the market for a synthetic boat. Carbonlite is reported to be pretty tough, but I was reluctant to test that property on a demo boat! It's got an available cement for doing repairs--supposedly much easier than repairing a polyethylene boat. It is certainly light and stiff, though. Shawn >I went to my favorite paddling store to buy 2 new canoe paddles, but spent >most of my time examnining an Eddyline kayak made of a material called >Carbonlite. -- Shawn W. Baker 0 46°53'N © 2000 ____©/______ 114°06'W ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ baker_at_montana.com 0 http://www.geocities.com/shawnkayak/ *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Jun 19 2000 - 08:00:44 PDT
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