Wes Boyd wrote: > know when I was up around Georgian Bay a couple weeks ago I saw a lot of > sea kayaks, but glass boats were rare. It would not surprise me that > plastic recreational and sea kayaks outsell glass boats ten to one. Yet, > reviews of plastic boats in SK are rare, and then it's more the top of the > line plastic. Some reports on novice-to-intermediate level boats would be > welcome. About 8 years ago I was talking with the head of a company that was well-known for its fiberglass boats but had just begun producing plastic boats as well. He always kids me about folding kayaks (as in "Hmmm, a Klepper. Good firewood!!") and so I razzed him a bit regarding the plastic. His comment "Ralph, making plastic boats is the next best thing to printing money." I would not be surprise that polyethylene kayaks outsell fiberglass 10 to 1 or even more. Sea Kayaker does review plastic kayaks. Perhaps not the low-end more recreational ones. I recall that some of those have been looked by Paddler and by Canoe & Kayak in recent years. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Aug 15 2000 - 10:51:29 PDT
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