John wrote: >>I also recommend the following site: http://paddling.net/Reviews/Kayaks.phtml for reviews on particular models. Again, I suggest that you read them with a grain of salt as many of models are being reviewed by those that own them and are generally favorable.>> I'd like to make that a verrrry large grain of salt. I looked up some of the worst kayaks I could find on the list and most were given 9 or 10's by the reviewers. I suspect that some of these reviewers are shills for the manufacturers (they tend to read like ad copy) or are from very naive new paddlers wanting to feel good about their choices. A few would even say what was seriously wrong with the kayak in their text and still give it a 9. When a reviewer did rate a boat poorly (5 to 7 in most cases was about as low as they would go) the comments were usually right on about the negatives of the kayak. Some kayaks with serious problems had nothing but 10's though. Buyer beware! This source of information pales in comparison to the reviews in Sea Kayaker Magazine done by experienced kayakers. Matt Broze http://www.marinerkayaks.com *************************************************************************** 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 - 21:04:18 PDT
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