Mel Grindol wrote: > >Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 01:01:15 -0400 > >From: Michael R Noyes <mnoyes_at_gsinet.net> > > >One of the boats that surprised me was the Perception Shadow > >composite. > > And remarkably that boat is also nice for non-small people. I'm 6' 0" and 180 lbs and found it to be a good boat. My wife has the plastic Shadow and is looking to upgrade to glass or kevlar next year so I thought I would give it a spin. Where the plastic boat is almost too tight the glass boat was comfortable. > I was also surprised when I tried the Shadow, pleasantly so. My partner, Amie, wants one. It is, I understand, a Sea Lion (as a result of Perception absorbing Aquaterra). What I'm curious about is: is it just a Sea Lion, or is it modified from the original Sea Lion design (other than cosmetically)? > > A couple of notes from the Perception rep at The Great Lakes symposium. Next year they are changing the foot pegs to be the gas peddle type for controlling the rudder (solid foot pegs) and they are going to offer a skeg version of the boat (even better). The skeg version will put it up there in contention with the Romany 16 for my wife next year. > With those mods, maybe I should get Amie to wait til next year. > > The kevlar Shadow is delightfully light. My partner for the rescue class was a lady in a kevlar Shadow. Nancy, in the yellow and red metalflake version? That's a cool looking kayak. Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jul 31 2000 - 19:35:41 PDT
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