>> What troubles me most about Mark's unfortunate accident is the fact that he >> was paddling a 14+ foot touring kayak on a class 3 - 4, 825 cfs, rocky >> whitewater river. When queried, he responded that he'd taken it on class 2 >i also paddle it with some regularity on class III rivers ;-) > [ Much Snipped here....] I've tried out a Yukon Expedition here in NJ, and it IS a good whitewater boat, as well as a good touring kayak. There are a couple of rivers in PA which are class II and afford overnite camping. This is a good kayak for this purpose. And yes, you can turn well through a Class III rapid. It's not the only one around, either. Recently Wilderness Systems introduced the Shaman, which has lines like the YE. Dagger has come out with the Crossover, a shorter boat whose lineage started with WW and wound up as a touring boat. I haven't tried it on Class II water yet, but a few demos on class I suggest that this too is a good boat for such conditions. Anyway, if you look at some of the older WW kayaks of a coupla decades ago, you'll see not a few that were 14 feet or longer. --You have to take the skills of the paddler into account...... Joe P. *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Aug 11 2000 - 14:23:41 PDT
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