Matt Broze wrote: > > ... > If you must maneuver quickly while dodging rocks you definitely want the WW > kayak and nothing else will come close. If open canoes use the river a sea > kayak should have no serious problems (except I would rather not scrape them > down the shallow riffles at low water). Wow. You are either kidding (and inadvertently left off the smiley face) or are living in the past when it comes to solo whitewater canoes. Do you really mean to say that if you can run a Class V, boulder-choked steep creek in an OC-1 (as is done quite frequently) then you should be able to do the same in a sea kayak? I don't think so. Highly rockered canoes that are 8 to 11 feet long have distinct handling advantages over sea kayaks in such circumstances. There has been considerable convergence between hull designs for whitewater kayaks and whitewater canoes in recent years (as was recently pointed out in an excellent article written by one of the designers on this list). The same cannot be said for sea kayaks. :-) Dan Hagen *************************************************************************** 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 - 22:56:24 PDT
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